...I had gumbo for the first time. Now this is not entirely true - I’d had gumbo before at other places. But when I was visiting my friend Sarah she took me over to one of her favorite places to eat and said that I had to have the gumbo there, because there was no way I could have had it properly anywhere else, outside of Louisiana at least. I had no reason to doubt this - and she was right, it utterly rocked. (Now I just need to remember the name of the restaurant.)