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R.I.P. Leah Chase, 96, New Orleans chef, restaurateur, writer
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leno...@yahoo.com
Jun 6, 2019, 2:54:29 PM6/6/19
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/leah-chase-died.html
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By Kim Severson
June 2, 2019
Leah Chase, the nation’s pre-eminent Creole chef, always knew what to feed her famous customers.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. liked barbecued ribs, and James Baldwin preferred gumbo. The singer Sarah Vaughan ordered stuffed crab to go, and Nat King Cole always wanted a four-minute egg.
She once had to stop Barack Obama, when he was running for president in early 2008, from putting hot sauce in her gumbo — a real culinary sin — and, despite pressure from a city still angry over the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, she fed President George W. Bush crab soup and shrimp Clemenceau on the second anniversary of the storm that nearly closed her restaurant, Dooky Chase’s, for good.
“In my dining room, we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo and some fried chicken,” she would often say.
Mrs. Chase died on Saturday at her son’s home near her restaurant in New Orleans, her daughter Stella Reese Chase said. She was 96.
Mrs. Chase was much more than a gifted chef, although she would argue that there is no greater calling than feeding people. She spread her message through cookbooks, countless media interviews and television shows. Princess Tiana, the waitress who wanted to own a restaurant in the animated Disney feature “The Princess and the Frog,” was based on Mrs. Chase. It was the first African-American princess in a Disney movie.
Mrs. Chase possessed a mix of intellectual curiosity, deep religious conviction and a will always to lift others up, which would make her a central cultural figure in both the politics of New Orleans and the national struggle for civil rights. “She is of a generation of African-American women who set their faces against the wind without looking back,” said Jessica B. Harris, who is an author and expert on food of the African diaspora and who said Mrs. Chase treated her like another daughter. “It’s a work ethic, yes, but it’s also seeing how you want things to be and then being relentless about getting there.”...
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"The Culinary Legacy of Leah Chase: The late chef and owner of Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans changed the landscape of African American cuisine."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/leah-chase-late-culinary-icon-new-orleans/590995/
(Under the photo of Chase, it says: "When the Freedom Riders were setting off on their perilous journeys, they often went fortified by a meal from Leah Chase’s kitchen.")
Lenona.
First paragraphs:
By Kim Severson
June 2, 2019
Leah Chase, the nation’s pre-eminent Creole chef, always knew what to feed her famous customers.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. liked barbecued ribs, and James Baldwin preferred gumbo. The singer Sarah Vaughan ordered stuffed crab to go, and Nat King Cole always wanted a four-minute egg.
She once had to stop Barack Obama, when he was running for president in early 2008, from putting hot sauce in her gumbo — a real culinary sin — and, despite pressure from a city still angry over the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, she fed President George W. Bush crab soup and shrimp Clemenceau on the second anniversary of the storm that nearly closed her restaurant, Dooky Chase’s, for good.
“In my dining room, we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo and some fried chicken,” she would often say.
Mrs. Chase died on Saturday at her son’s home near her restaurant in New Orleans, her daughter Stella Reese Chase said. She was 96.
Mrs. Chase was much more than a gifted chef, although she would argue that there is no greater calling than feeding people. She spread her message through cookbooks, countless media interviews and television shows. Princess Tiana, the waitress who wanted to own a restaurant in the animated Disney feature “The Princess and the Frog,” was based on Mrs. Chase. It was the first African-American princess in a Disney movie.
Mrs. Chase possessed a mix of intellectual curiosity, deep religious conviction and a will always to lift others up, which would make her a central cultural figure in both the politics of New Orleans and the national struggle for civil rights. “She is of a generation of African-American women who set their faces against the wind without looking back,” said Jessica B. Harris, who is an author and expert on food of the African diaspora and who said Mrs. Chase treated her like another daughter. “It’s a work ethic, yes, but it’s also seeing how you want things to be and then being relentless about getting there.”...
(snip)
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(more obits)
"The Culinary Legacy of Leah Chase: The late chef and owner of Dooky Chase’s restaurant in New Orleans changed the landscape of African American cuisine."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/leah-chase-late-culinary-icon-new-orleans/590995/
(Under the photo of Chase, it says: "When the Freedom Riders were setting off on their perilous journeys, they often went fortified by a meal from Leah Chase’s kitchen.")
Lenona.
itsjoan...@webtv.net
Jun 6, 2019, 2:58:53 PM6/6/19
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On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 1:54:29 PM UTC-5, leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/leah-chase-died.html
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> Lenona.
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You're late; read it the day it was posted. Been on vacation?
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/leah-chase-died.html
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> Lenona.
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You're late; read it the day it was posted. Been on vacation?
leno...@yahoo.com
Jun 6, 2019, 3:36:52 PM6/6/19
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On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-4, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
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> You're late; read it the day it was posted. Been on vacation?
EVERYONE is late who hasn't posted this here, already.
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> You're late; read it the day it was posted. Been on vacation?
itsjoan...@webtv.net
Jun 6, 2019, 3:43:55 PM6/6/19
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that frequent this group, but I don't feel the need to rush in with death
notices.
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