Ishmael Reed’s Mike Rees’ Clearlake, Texas Gumbo:
Brown 1 chicken in oven. Chop: 2 onions, 2 bell peppers, 1 lb. okra. Place in large pot with enough water and 1/2 oil to cover all. Simmer for about an hour. Add baked chicken and a couple of quarts of water. Add salt and garlic to taste. Simmer for about 1/2 hour more. Serve over rice with French bread.
From The Great American Writers’ Cookbook (ed. Dean Faulkner Wells, 1981).
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