Kentucky Burgoo

“No, no, no, that’s all wrong,” exclaimed a local at a Kentucky Derby party I attended in Louisville when I began telling how I make burgoo and failed to mention pork and veal shank, chopped cabbage, okra, and a slew of seasonings. Of course, Kentuckians are as sensitive about their burgoo as Virginians are about their Brunswick stew and Louisianians their jambalaya. It’s said that more than one political election has been lost in Kentucky because a candidate served some corrupt version of