*** Food ***     • Soulfood   • Louisiana Creole cuisine  • Crawfish (Louisiana)  • Watermelon  • various seafood traditions along the Gulf Coast and Southeastern shore     You mean like Jambalaya and Gumbo??? ( and if you haven't heard real Creoles are White, particularly French and Spanish).      Jambalaya  ( pronounced   /ˌdʒʌmbəˈlaɪə/  or ) is a  Louisiana Creole  dish of Spanish and French creation.     The origin of the name jambalaya is from the combination of the  French  jambon meaning ham, the French article à la meaning in the style of, and ya,  thought  to be of  West African  origin meaning rice. Hence, the dish was named jamb à la ya.      thought to be of African origin, so the only Black contribution to good Creole cookin' like jambalaya MIGHT POSSIBLY MAYBE be the little ya on the end of the word lol. But I doubt if even that is true. But if it is true, wow! A big contribution! :D     By Louisiana Creole cuisine did you mean....Gumbo???     Gumbo has been called the greatest contribution of Louisiana kitchens to  American cuisine . The dish has its origins in the meeting of cultures that occurred in Louisiana during the 18th century.  French cooking techniques provided the beginning  with  bouillabaisse . The native  Choctaw 's  filé powder  and local seafood were a major addition to the local cuisine.  West African slaves' imported okra found its way into the Louisiana kitchens, and provided gumbo with its name.  Bell peppers, tomatoes and cooked onions were brought to the table by Spanish colonists. [1] [2] [3]     The word  gumbo  comes from the Angolan word  kingombo , meaning  okra . [5]  The word came into Caribbean Spanish as  guingambó  or qimbombó, two words now used for okra in  Puerto Rico .     So...as you can see Gumbo is a White-European originated dish , not Black. The only thing you Blacks contributed looks to maybe be the name. Because as you can see what it says, the African word for the spice okra was kingombo. And that is supposedly where the word gumbo was derived from. Now I ask you , what's in a name? Not much. I could name my son Kunta Kintay but he'd still be White:D Thanks for the name, Gumbo is a good name I like it. Thanks guys, what a marvelous contribution.         