(Editor's note: The following was taken from "The Picayune's Creole Cook Book," circa 1901 and content may be dated) First, it will be necessary to explain here, for the benefit of many, that "File" ...

In Louisiana and elsewhere in the South, virtually every cook has his or her own unique gumbo recipe, and debates about the "perfect" gumbo are rampant. This is a gumbo I like a... In Louisiana and ...