As someone who binge-watched “Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators” on Netflix, I don’t shy away from the gauntlet. Recently, a reader threw one down. Granted, it ...

Making this super-savory gumbo is an all-day affair — but the ... It's made from the ground, dried leaves of the sassafras tree, which grows native in the eastern U.S. and has long been used ...

The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an ... However, the leaves are safe and are used to make file powder for ...

“Tomato sauce goes in for that reason only.” Gumbo can be thickened with filé, okra, or roux. The use of filé, or dried and ground sassafras leaves with thickening properties, was likely a ...

Others claim it’s not gumbo without filé powder, the dried and pounded leaves of the sassafras tree. Most agree that there must be roux, the French word for the mixture of fat and flour used as ...

Root beer, the old-fashioned beverage originally made from the root bark of the sassafras tree, has been a popular ... know that sassafras leaves make gumbo filé, a much better use for the ...