This rich, slow-cooked stew blends succulent shrimp, tender crab meat, smoky andouille sausage, and a deeply flavorful roux into a one-pot wonder that’s beloved across generations. Whether you’re ...

Although recipes for gumbo didn’t appear in cookbooks until the mid-1800s, historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall uncovered the first known mention of gumbo in a 1764 court document, according to writer ...

“Around the rest of America, you rarely see people identifying their European heritage as Creole, but in the 1800s they would have, and people continue to in Louisiana,” says Seiferth.

A mouthwatering bowl of gumbo is not just an iconic dish, but an invitation to learn about the foodways of Louisiana. “I have to be careful about speaking in terms of specific rules [about gumbo],” ...

"I thought, 'if this isn't gumbo weather I don't know what is,'" said Dante Rabeaux, a 29-year-old Lafayette resident who made a chicken and sausage gumbo for the first time ever during the storm.