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Leah Chase was the “Queen of Creole Cuisine” and the owner of the legendary Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in New Orleans. In the 1960s, the restaurant became a safe haven for civil rights leaders to meet and strategize over a bowl of gumbo. Later, presidents, musicians, artists, tourists, and generations of New Orleanians made their way to her dining room. “In my dining room, we changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo and some fried chicken,” she said. Mrs. Chase died Saturday, surrounded by her family. She was 96. In 2013 Ebony Magazine asked me to photograph Mrs. Chase for a feature story – one of the great perks of my career is photographing people I admire. She was passionate about her food and her city. The world was lucky to have a Leah Chase.
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