The beneficiary of The 17th Annual Gumbo Cook-Off is twelve-year-old Maddox Lawrence. Maddox was diagnosed with Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — The 17th Annual Gumbo Cook-Off heats up Saturday, Jan. 28, for a good cause. This year the event will be held at the Yambilee Ag Arena at 1939 W. Landry St. in Opelousas ...

It's hard to find a dish in the South that is more celebrated—or debated than gumbo. Well, there's also cornbread (sugar or not), chili (beans or not), and the old East versus West barbecue debate.

Govind Armstrong and Muhammad Ali’s former cook put gumbo on the menu. ... This is not because Armstrong cooks a mean gumbo, although he does — but because 90-year-old Edith Bell does.