Another huge loss for New Orleans. You think you lose big when you lose your house, but here we lose a person, a person that could help us uplift everything.
"Leah Chase" is a New Orleans chef, author and television personality. She is known as the "Queen of Creole Cuisine", and advocates for African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights movement; and was known as a gallery due to its extensive African-American art collection.
Chase has been the recipient of a multitude of awards and honors. In her 2002 biography, Chase's awards and honors occupy over two pages. Chase was inducted into the James Beard Foundation/James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America in 2010. She was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance in 2000. Chase received honorary degrees from Tulane University, Dillard University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Madonna College, Loyola University New Orleans, and Johnson & Wales University. She was awarded Times-Picayune Loving Cup Award in 1997. The Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana named a permanent gallery in Chase's honor in 2009.
More Leah Chase on Wikipedia.Austin always had that dumb old hat on. I always wished he'd get a new one, but he kept the old one. I don't know if it was a good luck charm or what.
That's been my whole life, and I'm not going to change, ... There've been a lot of problems solved in that dining room over a bowl of gumbo. There will be a lot more.
Chairs are not pretty when they're empty. Chairs are pretty when you have people in them!
I like feeding people.
It was just good old Creole food, good old-time New Orleans food. And he was good, damn good. You couldn't fry a chicken better than Austin. You couldn't stuff a pepper better than Austin Leslie.
You went to nothing overnight, nothing.
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