My "Paul Prudhomme Family Cookbook" is one of the most detailed recipe books that I have so you are in good hands. Good luck on the jambalaya. One thing I noted about the Jambalaya recipes from my cookbook is that neither contain Okra which I always considered a "standard" ingredient apparently it can be switched out for cabbage or other.
Or now that I am looking it over as used in his book Jambalaya is a generic term of some sort in the Cajun language???
I have never managed to visit the US (but have worked in three continents) and will admit to a fascination with gumbo and jambalaya.
Although some kind souls on these very threads have been most kind in sharing their recipes, some research suggested that Paul Prudhomme's book was a sort of classic of the genre.
I've been positively salivating reading the recipes.
Here, in my corner of windswept Europe, we do have Asian food stores, and thus, okra can be obtained readily easily. However, the recipes call for filé powder and andouille sausage (one of the top delis in the country, in the capital did confirm that they could order the sausage for me), but I must investigate the matter of filé powder further.