Our Story
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National Gumbo Day Meets Indigenous Peoples’ Day
This Monday, October 12, is National Gumbo Day. It is also Indigenous Peoples’ Day. When I noticed the two landing on the same date this year, I had to stop and laugh, because for a restaurant called Filé, that is not a coincidence you get to ignore.
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Why we use leidenheimer bread
Some things you just don’t compromise on. There are a hundred decisions that go into building a dish. Protein sourcing. Spice ratios. Cook times. The order in which aromatics hit the pan. Most of those decisions happen behind the kitchen doors, invisible to the guest. But bread? Bread is visible. Bread is the first thing…