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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (29100)	6/16/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Gumbo started out black, the word "kombo" is okra, in some African language, Yoruba, maybe? People from Western sub-Saharan Africa brought some of their favorite foods with them when they were enslaved: okra, yams, peanuts, greens. Rice of course comes from China, but the Arabs imported it, and the Arabs were the main slave-traders inside Africa. Rice is grown in the Carolinas and Louisiana. Hot peppers are from the Americas. Gumbo file is powdered sassafras, that's American Indian. You can make gumbo with chicken, sausage, fish, or shellfish. That's kinda universal.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (29100)	6/16/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (29100)	6/17/1999 8:29:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

My mother used to make me drink 'molasses milk' every day when I was small. She was a Yankee woman. I thought it was great-- just milk with a couple of tablespoons of molasses stirred in- she said it was for the iron..She always qualified her food with the nutritional reasons for eating it--we had to eat an egg a day "for the protein", a banana "for the potassium". she fed us raw hamburger sandwiches, and she burned every batch of biscuits she ever baked. SHe also personified her food.... When we were ill, she made "Mr. Milquetoast", and our eggs were softboiled in handpainted eggcups surrounded by toast cut in strips-- "Dippy and Soldiers". She made pears into little mice with clove eyes and carrot whiskers. My idea of homecooking is probably not the same as other people's.