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What kind of gumbo would he make?

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What kind of gumbo would he make?

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My dad—seafood gumbo is still the high-water mark in my life. He was an extraordinary seafood gumbo maker. My mom was—was a pretty good cook, but my dad’s gumbo was a pretty remarkable thing. I’ve made one gumbo that came close to his gumbos, and now it—I don’t really remember eating that much chicken gumbo at home. We ate mostly—mostly seafood gumbos. But we were from St. Mary’s Parish, so seafood is more of a tradition there. I can say this: you know most people think of sausage as being an integral part of a lot of gumbos, but in my household if a shadow of a sausage passed over the gumbo pot, that gumbo was spoiled in my dad’s imagination. And it’s something that happens in some of those coastal areas where—where sausage comes later. So there’s still a lot of people who think, Sausage —what’s wrong with you? Why would you put sausage in a gumbo and spoil it? What do you think you did right when you made that one pot of gumbo that approached your father’s? Oh what I did right was I

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