"He cooked me some of his cow tongue, white fish gumbo with shrimps, potatoes, and all these herbs and spices.
"How to Do It" includes recipes for cheese canapes from her best friend, Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon, known as Dickie; Senegalese soup by Margaret Case, the Vogue editor; Elsie Woodward's recipe for boiled salad dressing; Joan Fontaine's creole fish gumbo; Diana Vreeland's salade Parisienne.
Purists stick with the basic grilled fish; the spicy gumbo or lobster and crab au gratin are good choices, too.
A gumbo with its fish, corn, celery and Cajun punch tasted like it does in the bayous, and the spicy Jamaican conch chowder loaded with tender meat and vegetables displayed an interesting interplay of spices.
We'll catch our dinner, spit-roast a fish, soak it in hippie gumbo.
Seafood gumbo never contains fin fish.
This dish, along with a delicious gumbo bursting with chicken, fish and andouille sausage, point to the sous chef's experience in the kitchen of Commander's Palace in New Orleans.
As a fully paid-up emmet (a derogatory Cornish term for tourists, which I can't resist pointing out derives from the Old English word for ant), I feel almost as nervous venturing a recipe for a Cornish pasty as I did exploring the exotic landscapes of the Southern gumbo and the Goan fish curry.
The main courses include gumbo, chicken-fried steak, grilled fish and huge pork chops.
WHAT WE LIKED Gumbo, fried oysters, steak quesadilla, fish taco, Key lime shrimp, Alaskan salmon, pork chop, ribs, citrus ice cream.
Were people now being asked to look at fish, not with relish for a scrumptious gumbo, jambalaya, or all-you-can-eat fish fry, but as dubious carriers of toxic chemicals?
