Nov 18, 2019
4 min read
What Cooking Gumbo Means
No matter how you spice it…
As I was entering first grade at Bessemer, Alabama’s Arlington School — a school only six blocks from my home — my friend Steve described to me the kinds of lunches I’d be getting. Because no matter what, when you’re a kid away from home for lunch for the first time, no arithmetic, language or social studies classes match how a group of strange ladies is going to feed you.
