. . . . . . . "???My father was in the military and we lived in a lot of places when I was younger,??? he said, ???so I learned about different foods.??? Jambalaya is a Cajun or Creole dish cooked with rice, shrimp, oysters, ham or chicken or other fish or meat ingredients, and gumbo, a thick soup that Fluker makes, he said, with okra, fish, carrots and a mix of other vegetables with a decidedly spicy Louisiana" .