West Africans Teach Foreigners How to Cook Gumbo (Unforgettable Experience) - 🇧🇯

I traveled to Benin, West Africa, a region that birthed what we know of in Louisiana as gumbo. In the first video (https://tinyurl.com/275s26p6) I scoured the largest market in West Africa to find the ingredients of the first gumbo. In this video, we were invited to Jean Paul's home where his mother, Augustine, offered to prepare and cook her recipe for Beninese okra stew - the very dish that hundreds of years ago would lend itself to what we know of today as Louisiana gumbo. Please consider supporting this work at www.patreon.com/WhereJodyAt ---------------------------------------- Thanks to Jean Paul Houndagnon who helped show us around. Jean Paul will help you organize any trip through West Africa. Contact Jean-Paul on Instagram at: @jplhoundagnon_32 or call/message him on WhatsApp at: +22967041288 ---------------------------------------- I am also a serious journalist. I also wrote about this story for BBC World's Table & Country Roads Magazine. Check it out: ► https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20... ► https://countryroadsmagazine.com/cuis... ---------------------------------------- Check out Benjamin Dome's channel:    / @imsocurious   ---------------------------------------- ★★★ THIS EPISODE WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MY PRODUCER PATREONS: ◉ MICHAEL WRIGHT - Producer ◉ ALAN SIMPSON - Producer ◉ SHAYLYN BROUSSARD - Producer ◉ NICOLE FAURE - Producer ---------------------------------------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Coming Up 00:24 - What Am I Doing? 01:45 - Step 1 02:01 - Step 2 02:11 - Step 3 03:00 - Step 4 03:40 - Step 5 04:08 - Step 6 04:40 - Step 7 05:10 - Step 8 05:43 - Step 9 06:40 - Step 10 07:20 - Step 11 07:55 - Step 12 09:30 - Step 13 11:45 - Step 14 12:01 - Step 15 12:12 - Step 16 12:21 - Step 17 13:00 - Step 18 13:10 - Step 19 13:56 - Step 20 14:05 - Step 21 14:27 - Step 22 14:56 - Step 23 15:42 - Step 24 17:29 - Step 25 17:54 - Give Thanks 19:20 - Eat! 20:56 - JP Review 22:58 - Credits ---------------------------------------- LISTEN // WATCH // SUPPORT: ► Venmo: @WhereJodyAt ► Patreon:   / wherejodyat   ---------------------------------------- 📷INSTAGRAM ➡️   / wherejodyat   ---------------------------------------- ✉ EMAIL Messages or Business Inquires: [email protected] ---------------------------------------- ☕BUY ME A COFFEE Have some spare change? Buy me a coffee + 1 and I'll try to make a video about it and thank you! Be sure and leave a note! ➡️https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jodyray ---------------------------------------- #Africa #Benin #Gumbo #Cuisine #travel #vlogger #Louisiana #LouisianaGumbo #gumbo