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Published 2019
Gumbo is one of the great American dishes, a reflection of our melting-pot culture. It’s a hearty, satisfying stew that causes arguments, even fists on occasion, to fly. It’s the kind of dish that has so many potential variations, it’s impossible to say when a pot of roux-thickened broth stops being a gumbo and starts being something else (as when a paella stops being a paella and becomes stuff mixed with rice).
Because rice—and a specific rice, American long-grain rice—is a fundame