Ashley
Ashley Wright
English 1301-01
Miss Dailey
23 September 2008
Football Season Gumbo
Football season is Gumbo season. After my brother’s game, family and friends enjoy the festive atmosphere of people talking and music playing while the gumbo is cooking. The sound of NFL football games coming from the television set, while guests are wait anxiously for the finish product makes time go by quickly. The smells of Cajun seafood fills the room like my favorite perfume. The ingredients of seafood gumbo are like no other. The hot spicy gumbo tastes so good that it’s like a funnel cake melting in your mouth, The gumbo looks scrumptious and tasty when its cooking. The gumbo has a dark colored roux with shrimp, okra, crabs, and chicken. When your mouth touches the spoon and tastes the gumbo seasonings it feels like you’re in another place .Seafood gumbo is served with rice and crackers which is a delicious meal to enjoy. It can help warm up during cold, blizzard weather. The way my mother cooks gumbo excites every taste bud within me. My heart sings when I eat gumbo. When it comes to my mother’s gumbo the gumbo screams out my name. The gumbo is a great meal for any season of the year because it brings family and friends together for festive events. Football season is here so let’s get ready to eat all gumbo all football season long.Having originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, gumbo is the result of the melting of cultures in Louisianan history. For example, the dish itself is based on the French soup bouillebasse, but the use of okra is West African in origin. The "Holy Trinity" is of Spanish origin and the use of filé powder (ground sassafras leaves) is Native American. Currently, the dish is very common in Louisiana, Southeast Texas, southern Mississippi and Alabama, and the Lowcountry around Charleston, South Carolina, near Brunswick, Georgia and among Creoles throughout the region. It...
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