Mumbo Jumbo, Stay Out of the Gumbo

What you need to know before your trail

In Creole country where the Gumbo smells good and tastes even better, one cagey rooster vows not to be in the communal gumbo pot this Courir de Mardi Gras.

As masked Carnival revelers travel across Acadiana begging for ingredients for their communal gumbo, the rooster flies ahead to warn the alligator, goose, crawfish, shrimp, pig, oysters, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, and chickens to hide and stay out of sight. Although the revelers visit every farmhouse, there is “nary a critter from a gator to a mouse”! How will the Cajuns celebrate Mardi Gras without gumbo?

French – Canjun words and recipes included