Word: gumbo
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Fried catfish and a rich gumbo, even more directly communicative of the history of the culture that created them, followed. Catfish—a dirt cheap, bottom-feeding fish generally looked down upon by most cuisines—is a Cajun favorite. Moist, tender, and succulent, the fish can hold its own against the nearly overpowering ingredients ubiquitous in Cajun cooking. Cajun catfish is often served “blackened”—lightly battered with a potent mix of garlic, cornmeal, flour, cumin, generous amounts of chili, and other spices—and pan fried until...
...gumbo, a New Orleans staple, was one of the best I’ve had. Gumbo is about as clear an expression of its cultural roots as food gets. The dish is an almost magical transformation of an impressive number of cheap ingredients into a potent, dirty reddish-green witches’ brew. Composed largely of throwaways from other dished, it’s about as good as a soup can get. To make a gumbo, you start with the roux, a classic French soup base which is used as one of the soup’s two main thickeners...
...Laughs.] Maybe some sort of frog-leg gumbo...
...that tourists visit, New Orleans seems to have cleaned itself up quite nicely in the year since Katrina. French Quarter businesses have swept their stoops and hung banners, and bawdy Bourbon Street is awash in neon; Creole stalwarts like Galatoire's and Arnaud's are once again dishing up gumbo and crawfish etouffe, and live music spills nightly from funky clubs Uptown and on Frenchmen Street, an entertainment strip adjacent to the French Quarter; even the mammoth Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which became a symbol of human suffering to millions of television viewers in the storm's aftermath...
...civil-engineering management, the depleted city coffers, the lawless depravity, the history of political corruption by a long line of city and state officials, and the incompetent governance that television viewers are discovering are, to use the local vernacular, the roux of a long-simmering pot of gumbo that finally boiled over when Hurricane Katrina turned up the heat last week. Now the city is drowning...