is the coffee okay? Yes ma'am. You know what kind it is? I did not. You know what
kind? Javalia. Community. Community? Louisiana. Everybody in Louisiana has to
have it. I knew people in South Carolina when they went out there and
lived. They had to have people ship it to them. Oh my goodness. That was pathetic.
All right ma'am. You ready? I'm ready Zobby. Where did you actually grow up?
Govham, Florida. Way back in the swamp. What was it? What was life like? It was
wonderful. It was quite I guess hard work but we invented a lot of fun out of it
too. We didn't believe in all work and no play. Mom and daddy did but we didn't.
But there was a little store down the highway 19 called Mr. Gavin's Store. Mr.
Gavin. Anyway we bought groceries there. Just staples. You know some staples. We
didn't buy much of anything because we had our own killed our own cows and our
own hogs and our own chickens and things and we fished for fish. But mama was
just driven to feed us and to help you know and she and daddy both worked
really hard. I just never dawned on me to worry about what I was gonna wear or
what I was gonna eat. I knew mom and daddy take care of me.
the company I made in Texas was just it didn't have any of the vegetables and
things. It had garlic and onions but it was more like a gravy type and it was
good. But then Donald had all of us to come to his house in New Orleans and he
made the DB Small Woods electrified seafood gumbo. He put crabs and
oysters and shrimp, sausage, everything under the sun in it. A huge part of it
and it was wonderful. And so I got his recipe and he put tomatoes and all the
stuff now that I do. I never do measuring thing I just do it you know so it
never tastes quite the same. I don't know if there's just a certain taste to me
that it has to have before you can call it gumbo to me. I don't know about. Some
people don't even use root. Is there a true gumbo? To you a true gumbo?
A true. I guess you'd have to go to Cajun country to find out.
