The big question I always ponder about oysters is, what motivated the person who first picked up this rock-like thing from the bottom of some primordial lagoon and decided to crack it open and eat the gray amorphous blob within? Perhaps it was the labia-like appearance that served as the enticement. (While the connection of [...]
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Glorious Gumbo: Mysteries of the Roux and Other Secrets
October 1, 1989 – 12:01 am
“Gombo filé! Gombo fevis! Gombo aux herbes! Gombo chevrettes, ou aux huitres! What do these things mean at present but vapidity of taste, instead of the licking of one’s lips? And the soups? The soups! Not a ghost of them lingering on earth.” -Charles Gayarre; in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, March 1887. Gayarre, the distinguished [...]
