Gumbo Tales Quotes

“New Orleans was the ideal town for an underachiever, a place where whiling away Saturdays on the stoop or on projects so underproductive they wouldn’t count as hobbies in other cities was the norm. This environment suited me and other people who, like me, wanted to appear more industrious than average without doing much work.”
― Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

“Poppy Tooker, the efficacious leader of New Orleans’ Slow Food convivium, agreed: “As far as I’m concerned, a turducken is a medieval pile of poo. I’ve never seen one that, when carved, didn’t look like that and didn’t taste like a big pile of mish-mash-mush. Anyone who knows anything about food thinks the same.”
― Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table