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    Gumbo Filé, M. E. M’Ilhenny, Avery Island, Louisiana

    ByKara June 7, 2022April 5, 2026

    “Gumbo Filet Powder is made of the tender young leaves of the sassafras,” wrote Jane Gilmor Howard in her 1873 cookbook Fifty Years in A Maryland Kitchen, “picked in the Spring, and dried carefully in the shade as you do herbs; powdered fine, bottled and corked tight. It is much used in New Orleans.” This…

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    “Louisiana Gumbo Okra”, Mrs. E. J. Strasburg, Maryland Cook Book

    ByKara September 16, 2018April 8, 2026

    It may be impossible to know how many lesser-known Maryland cookbooks have been published and lost to time. I’ve spent many hours obsessively searching the internet, library catalogs, bibliographies, and bookstores for titles to add to my list – especially anything from the 19th century or close to it. A search of digitized newspapers once…

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