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gumbo

[guhm-boh] / ˈgʌm boʊ /


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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

Try using it at home, either in a super simple dashi or maybe in a kombu-imbued rice pilaf, a crispy okonomiyaki, or perhaps even take inspiration from Amanda and make a vegan gumbo.

From Salon May 14, 2024

We should consider ourselves lucky that the appropriated accents aren't dripping with Northern gumbo, i.e. the kind that punishes us instead of lending flavor.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2024

Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes 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

Some people are turned off by okra’s slimy texture, which comes from its seeds and makes it a natural thickener for gumbos and stews.

From Washington Post Jun. 21, 2022

Mr. McCree’s gumbos, including Tiny’s gumbo based on his grandfather’s style, are cooked to order in kettles behind a counter with a long row of tables opposite.

From New York Times May 24, 2022

And because of that, our gatherings are generally joyous gumbos of movie quotes and good-natured insults.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2020

Folse said the “black pot cooking” of Louisiana, where gumbos, gravies and vegetables simmer slowly in cast iron, has its roots in the Caribbean and before that in West Africa.

From Washington Times Dec. 15, 2019

After he realised the scale of the problem, he founded the National Institute of Crayfish Trappers, and became Crayfish Bob, selling gumbos and crawfish boil.

From The Guardian Aug. 31, 2017




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