Leah Chase

Leah Chase
Leah Chaseis 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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chairs are not pretty when they're empty. Chairs are pretty when you have people in them!
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Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.
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You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.
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You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.
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I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.