aking a dark Cajun roux from scratch is a dying art. Not too many years ago, there wasn’t a Cajun or Creole household in south Louisiana that didn’t have the unmistakably intense aroma of a dark roux ...

A basic recipe may never grow old, but the method of cooking it might. For example, black iron kettles have been used for cooking roux for hundreds of years. A microwave oven updates roux-making to ...

Adding cooked chicken to the gumbo, which was made in a microwave oven. (Photo by David Grunfeld / Nola.com / The Times-Picayune) The first person I ever saw make a roux was a guy who grew up in ...