Sure, you can get the Cajun and Creole soup pretty much anywhere in the country. But the Gumbo Belt has the best.

Gumbo typically includes okra (the name comes from “gombo,” the word for okra in several West African languages), along with andouille or other smoked sausage, shrimp, and other meats and ...

Okra, in particular ... Just be sure not to overcook the seafood to keep it tender. Crab and shrimp gumbo is a flavorful ...

There’s also chicken-and-sausage gumbo, made with andouille sausage (a sausage that was foreign to Elie until he was an adult). Okra gumbos often include shrimp and okra or chicken and okra.

The term gumbo is from a an African word meaning okra, and the stew or soup is from ... Peel and devein two pounds of wild-caught shrimp. Place the shelled shrimp into the refrigerator until ...

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 ...

"We have gumbo with andouille sausage, okra, shrimp, chicken. It’s good stuff." Hotaling has worked at the restaurant for 10 years. Her first year, the restaurant decided to participate in the ...