In large dutch oven, fry bacon crisp and crumble. Add onions and green pepper and brown slightly in bacon drippings. Blend in flour. Add tomotoes, gumbo, okra, celery and ham. Fill dutch oven 2/3 full of water and cook on low heat for 2 hours. Thirty minutes before serving, add shrimp, crab meat and gumbo file. Blend file into mixture well. Serve over hot rice. MRS DAVID HENDERSON (GRACE) MARVELL, AR From the book , Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from G Internet, G Internet.