Gombo Zhebes
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2001
Language: eng; cpf; fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781557095138
Subjects: Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Fiction; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Creole dialects, French; Proverbs, Creole; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is " Gombo "compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally " lose, zepinard, laitie," and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market.