Legendary Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase, dies at 96
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans chef and civil rights icon Leah Chase, who created the city’s first white-tablecloth restaurant for black patrons, broke the city’s segregation laws by seating white and black customers and introduced countless tourists to Southern Louisiana Creole cooking, died Saturday. And just a little plate of food will make people happy,” she said during a 2015 interview with The Associated Press .At a time when other black Creole women were working in the city’s garment industry, Chase worked as a waitress in the French Quarter, which exposed her to the segregated city’s pricey restaurants frequented by white people.When she married Dooky Chase in 1946, his family restaurant had been open for five years, largely under the guidance of his mother.
As said here by REBECCA SANTANA