{"product_id":"2940170244362","title":"Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsk any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: \"Momma.\" The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans-all had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA seasoned journalist, Ken Wells sleuths out the answers. His obsession goes back to his childhood in the Cajun bastion of Bayou Black. Back then, gumbo was a humble soup little known beyond the boundaries of Louisiana. So when a homesick young Ken, at college in Missouri, realized there wasn't a restaurant that could satisfy his gumbo cravings, he called his momma for the recipe. That phone-taught gumbo was a disaster. The second, cooked at his mother's side, fueled a lifelong quest to explore gumbo's roots and mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGumbo Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Wells does just that. He spends time with octogenarian chefs who turn the lowly coot into gourmet gumbo; joins a team at a highly competitive gumbo contest; visits a factory that churns out gumbo by the ton; and observes the gumbo-making rituals of an iconic New Orleans restaurant where high-end Creole cooking and Cajun cuisine first merged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104893780208,"sku":"2940170244362","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170244362_p0.jpg?v=1763706105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170244362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}