Leah Chase is a culinary legend in New Orleans. For over 75 years, she has run Dooky Chase’s restaurant on Orleans Avenue. The restaurant is not just an institution serving some of the best gumbo and fried chicken in New Orleans, but was also a major meeting place for civil rights activists and intellectuals during the 1960s. Chase, now 93, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from James Beard Foundation in 2016.
As Told By Leah Chase
Words by Bill Spratling
Read by Nancy Peterson
Original Music by Kyle Carpenter & Wilder Adkins
Cover Photo by Stephanie Davis & Austin Richardson
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