Gumbo has roots in West African cooking and features ingredients native to the Louisiana bayous. With rustic origins, gumbo ...

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“Indeed, the very word gombo, means okra in several African dialects. Okra adds a decidedly viscous quality to a gumbo, which some find to be off-putting and some an acquired taste, while others ...

West African slaves brought okra from their native lands to the southern United States. The vegetable, which they called kimgombo, also gave gumbo its name. In the 1840s, hundreds of Louisianans ...