The word “gumbo” has African origins, and variations of it are used in several branches of the Bantu language family to describe okra. When enslaved Africans were taken to the French colony of ...

This chicken and okra gumbo comes from chef Rembs Layman, who served a version of it at his restaurant Tupelo in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For home cooks, he suggests using store-bought ...

Okra, also known as lady's finger or gumbo, is a long, ribbed green seed pod that looks like a finger. The word on the streets is that drinking okra water elevates a lady's libido and improves ...

Sure, you can get the Cajun and Creole soup pretty much anywhere in the country. But the Gumbo Belt has the best.

West African slaves brought okra from their native lands to the southern United States. The vegetable, which they called kimgombo, also gave gumbo its name. In the 1840s, hundreds of Louisianans ...

When the oil is hot, take each sliced okra piece and dip into the egg white ... salt as soon as they come out of the oil. Finish the gumbo with a good squeeze of lemon and a generous amount ...