In this March 2007 photo, Leah Chase stands outside of her famous New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase’s, that was started by her husband’s family in the early 1940s.
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Legendary queen of Creole cuisine, Leah Chase, dies at 96
New Orleans chef and civil rights icon Leah Chase, who created New Orleans’ first white-tablecloth restaurant for black patrons, broke the city’s segregation laws by seating white and black customers together and introduced countless tourists to Southern Louisiana Creole cooking, died Saturday, June 1, 2019. She was 96.
