In the Kitchen: Artist Delano Dunn Dishes Out His Family’s Secret Gumbo Recipe, Which Inspired His Latest Work
The famous New Orleans soup is the basis for new works on view at the artist s solo show at Vermont s Brattleboro Museum.
July 15, 2021
Delano Dunn with works from his series Roux, inspired by the ingredients in his family recipe for gumbo. Photo courtesy of Arts and Public Life, Chicago.
Making gumbo takes about six hours. Delano Dunn knows, because that’s about how long the video is for the Zoom cooking demonstration he did last May during his residency at Arts and Public Life in Chicago, preparing gumbo and sharing the family recipe for the first time.
PLAN AHEAD: Pie time
► Pie time
Pate Brisee: A Conversation with Four Pies is an event where artists Delano Dunn and Susan Luss, baker Megan Sway, and Dunn’s mother, Diane Mangle, work together virtually to make pies, talk culinary histories, and eat, as the old Creoles used to say, “melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness!”. In this live Zoom presentation, bakers from different regions in the US make pies that represent their culinary heritage. Using the shared experience of pie-baking to build community, Dunn, Luss, Sway, and
Mangle hold a wideranging discussion of their memories and associations with pie and other meaningful foods. July 30. 5 am. Sign up on www. allevents.in.