Alabama-LSU gumbo cook-off to aid storm recovery
Alabama and LSU fans will compete in the first-ever LouisiBama Gumbo Bowl Tailgate Cook-Off as part of game day celebrations in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 5.
Four Alabama fans and four LSU fans will put their gumbo recipes to the test in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium before the big game. The winner of the cook-off will take home the Gumbo Bowl Tailgate Grand Champion trophy. Judges for the challenge include Alabama football star Kenny Stabler and LSU football star A.J. Duhe, as well as Great American Seafood Cook-off winner Jim Smith.
For information on how to submit your gumbo recipe to be one of the Alabama fans selected for the cook-off see www.alabama.travel.
Other events planned for the LouisiBama Gumbo Bowl include a shot at the world’s record for the largest pot of gumbo.
The world’s largest pot of gumbo is a joint effort by Alabama football All-American and All-pro Miami Dolphin legend Bob Baumhower, Chef Steve Zucker from Baumhower’s namesake restaurants and renowned award-winning chefs John Folse and Rick Tramonto. This unique cooking team will be preparing the gumbo in a huge 300-year-old cast iron pot being brought in on a flatbed tractor trailer from South Louisiana to Tuscaloosa.
The gumbo recipe the chefs are using will feed 10,000 people and calls for 750 pounds shrimp, 450 pounds catfish fillets, 100 pounds claw crabmeat, 50 pounds white crabmeat, 200 pounds alligator meat, 25 pounds Louisiana crawfish tail meat, 200 pounds diced onions, 75 pounds diced celery, 100 pounds diced green bell pepper, 150 pounds sliced okra, 50 pounds garlic and 20 pounds butter. The Guinness Book of World Records will be verifying the gumbo for the record.
Bowls of the gumbo will be sold to the pre-game football crowd for $5 with all proceeds going to benefit Tuscaloosa area charities and their work in the tornado recovery effort.
