gumbo
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On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
That includes mashed potatoes, chicken pot pie and casserole, or big pots of soup, chowder, gumbo and jambalaya.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
There’s a meat market there, and they have all the andouille sausage, which is good if I’m going to cook something like a gumbo.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes up for Hantman’s dinner receptions — one in January served gumbo family-style two doors down at a local artist’s Midcentury Modern house.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024
Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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