Today's cook the book recipe, excerpted from The Oprah Magazine Cookbook, is for a sensational Creole Gumbo straight from the Big Easy. Chef Leah Chase, owner of the restaurant Dooky Chase and arguably the Queen of Creole Cuisine, pulls out...
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Sunday Night Soups, where each week The Gurgling Cod shows up to offer a soup appropriate to the week's Sunday Night Football game on NBC. This Sunday evening sees the renewal of the Carbetbag bowl, as the Colts, former Charm...
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Editor's note: A couple of weeks ago I saw the fine writer Sara Roahen give a talk at the Southern Foodways Symposium on boudin, the pork, liver, and rice sausage most often found in the Louisiana countryside. She was smart,...
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Sunday Night Soups, where each week
The Gurgling Cod shows up to offer a soup appropriate to the week's Sunday Night Football game on NBC. This week, an easy gumbo to help cheer on the New Orleans Saints as they try for their first win of the season. (Yes, this one's a bit biased--but the author lives in New Orleans.)
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