Étouffée tends to highlight shellfish like shrimp in a roux-based sauce, while gumbo features a wider range of ingredients ... “(The name) literally translates to smothered,” Cooper says. “Crawfish or ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Everywhere else in the world, it’s autumn. The leaf-falling season. The harvest season. But in New Orleans, it’s gumbo season, shrimp stew season and etouffee season.