Ken Wells

Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries-old Cajun and Creole secret, gumbo, has become one of the world's most beloved dishes. The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, and Native Americans—all had...