Gumbo

Today, I made, (with Meg's help), a gumbo!

Gumbo is a Cajun dish, derived from a West African recipe and consisting of a simple basic sauce, thick broth and the so-called 'Holy Trinity' of vegetables: peppers, onion and celery. It was very tasteful. Its archetypical 'soul food', i.e. food developed by the substantial slave population in Colonial America.

And so, I'm quite proud of myself for making this meal - especially the part of me that is a die-hard Dixiephile. The Southern USA is so much better than the North, the North is just so obsessed with how great it is, while the South just trundles along, and never claims to be anything more than it really is.

In closing, the word 'Cajun' is a pidginisation of the French 'Acadien', an individual from the French Colony of Acadia. MY POINT BEING, Acadia is a really great name for a colony, its so whimsical-sounding, I mean, the only geographical location that comes close to meeting that level of whimsy is Narnia, and we all know what Narnia (Turkish Delight) is like!