Originally published in 1885, Gombo Zhebes is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 dialects. Included are selections from the Creole of French Guyana, the Creole of Haiti, the Creole of New Orleans, the Creole of Martinique, the Creole of Mauritius, and the Creole of Trinidad. The proverbs are translated into French and into English.
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Hearn (1850-1904) was born in Levkas, Greece, as the son of Greek and British parents. In 1869 he went to the United States and did various work, finally as a journalist. In 1890 he came to Japan and taught English in Japanese schools, and became a Japanese citizen under the name of Koizumi Yakuma. He died in Tokyo.
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Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is " Gombo "compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally " lose, zepinard, laitie," and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is " Gombo "compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally " lose, zepinard, laitie," and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Les bambous by François Marbot in Back Matter
- The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar by J.J. Thomas in Back Matter
- The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson on 4 pages
- The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson on 4 pages
- New Orleans: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) by Louise McKinney on page 20, and page 94
- Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century) by Roger D. Abrahams in Front Matter
- With a Whoop and a Holler by Nancy Van Laan in Back Matter
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