Roux Roots Us

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Research Article| April 01 2022 Roux Roots Us: Queer Reclamation and Redefinitions of Personal Culture Riley Clare Valentine Riley Clare Valentine Author’s email: mrile15@lsu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2022) 3 (2): 217–220. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.217 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Riley Clare Valentine; Roux Roots Us: Queer Reclamation and Redefinitions of Personal Culture. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2022; 3 (2): 217–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.217 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search My mother reminds my sisters and me that Cajun cooking is a heritage. You make gumbo with the end in mind. Before I begin cooking gumbo, I rehearse my mother’s recipe, which is my grandmother’s recipe, which is her mother’s recipe, and so on. Acadiana spans across multiple parishes in southern Louisiana. Cajun culture varies across Acadiana, and this particularly arises in cooking. Lafayette Cajuns put boiled eggs into their gumbo. My mother’s family is from Churchpoint and Opelousas. Her gumbo is a meat stew of chicken and sausage. Occasionally, she makes crawfish and sausage, my favorite gumbo. My great-aunt from down the way makes seafood gumbo, rich with oysters and crabs. Gumbo tells the story of where you are from. It divides us into our parishes, into our families that spread across the bayous. The way we make our spices, the darkness of the roux, it roots us. My... You do not currently have access to this content.