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Gumbo….A Soul Food Odyssey
July 30, 2010
Gumbo is a stew and/or soup which originated in the South Louisiana area. It consists primarily of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and the vegetable “holy trinity” of celery, bell peppers, and onion. Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used: the African vegetable okra, the Choctaw spice filé powder, […]
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Ricky Panesar
Ricky Panesar is a qualified chef, and a food consultant, food stylist and photographer based in London, with over 12 years’ professional catering experience in a range of catering environments.
The Story of Filé
January 15, 2011
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For hundreds of years the Choctaw Indians have had a settlement at Bayou Lacombe on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, and had a way of making Gumbo long before the white man and the black man arrived. They invented filé (pronounced feelay). The tender green leaves of the sassafras tree are picked, dried, and […]