access to rice or at least not very much rice if you had a lot of rice you could just thicken the stew with rice rice was expensive in NUMBER_TOKEN a group of germans settled near new orleans and they brought sausage though the common sausage used in gumbo today has a french name and dewey the french versus german origin of this stuff is a subject of debate in NUMBER_TOKEN the french ceded louisiana to the spanish it was part of the settlement of the seven years war spanish settlers in particular ones from the canary islands may have brought some of the spices and the peppers even though ironically peppers originated in america in the first place and they also probably brought the shellfish also a result of the seven years war the great expulsion the brits expelled french settlers in what are now the canadian maritime provinces and the spanish allowed them to resettle in louisiana these people were known as acadians which eventually became cajuns there's hypothesis that gumbo came about from cajuns trying to recreate their traditional fish stew their bouya base with louisiana ingredients problem is there's evidence that gumbo or something like it was already happening in louisiana long before the acadian expulsion seems to me both things could be true the cajuns might have developed the pre-existing recipe a bit with their bouillabaisse techniques to this day some people draw a distinction between cajun gumbo and creole gumbo creole in this context is this kind of vague word that refers to people who descend from the french or spanish colonial periods of louisiana and these are generally people of mixed heritage and sometimes cajun is considered a subset of creole sometimes not i don't know all i know is that it took me like four hours to cook this not really a family recipe suited for contemporary life for that i turned to hellofresh the sponsor of this video hellofresh is america's number one meal kit delivery the mind boggles at the number of cultures represented in this box shwarma spiced chicken and rice let's do it i know how to cook but i still cook from hellofresh recipes all the time they're very tasty they introduce me to new ingredients and techniques and i don't have to plan them i don't have to shop for them everything comes pre-portioned i have to worry about how i'm going to use the rest of the yogurt that i bought for this one recipe they only sent me what yogurt i would need for this one dinner it's less stress less waste even with the packaging a meal like this is greener because of the reduction in food waste says a university of michigan study there's all different meal plans to choose from and you can switch from one to the other or pause deliveries real easy try it yourself go to URL_TOKEN and use code adamraguciaNUMBER_TOKEN to get NUMBER_TOKEN free meals plus free shipping link and code are in the description adamerguciaNUMBER_TOKEN thank you hellofresh now all the while newcomers accumulated in louisiana like so many gumbo ingredients there were of course people who already lived there it was probably choctaw speaking native americans who brought the filet powder the dried and ground leaves of the sassafras tree this is the third thickener used in gumbo
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