A good friend of mine heard of this technique from some old timer, and so he shared it with me. It may work for other wild game gumbos as well. There’s probably a law against it somewhere, but when did that ever stop an ol’ coon-ass?

Ingredients:

Corn
Early Times Whiskey
Ducks
Your other favorite gumbo ingredients- roux, onions, green peppers, celery, spices, and the like.

1. Take the corn and soak it in the Early Times whiskey for several hours.
2. After the corn is well soaked, take it and spread it around on your lawn or even in your driveway.
3. Wait for the ducks to come, which they eventually will do. They are attracted to corn like a certain President is to television cameras.
4. Allow the ducks to forage on the corn, and then wait a short while. They will begin to show the tell tale signs of alcohol consumption, such as singing karaoke.
5. Once you notice these tell-tale signs, go out and grab a couple of the staggering birds by the neck. This should not pose to be a challenge.
6. Butcher the ducks, and prepare the gumbo according to your favorite recipe
7. Put on a pot of rice and enjoy.

I am told that the meat obtained from this method is very tender and not the least bit gamey, as the ducks will have suffered absolutely no trauma having been caught by this method. Lest the animal rights activists criticize me for publishing this, don’t you think that this is a better way for them to go than by the more traditional method, by which they neither get fed or get any whiskey?