The Dooky Chase Cookbook [Hardcover]

Dooky Chases Restaurant, a New Orleans landmark and celebrated bastion of fine Creole food, has welcomed notable individuals as well as thousands of locals through its doors since opening in 1941. The unquestionable authority in the restaurants kitchen for many of those years, Leah Chase offers here a collection of recipes from the menu and her personal files that have delighted patrons for decades.

Spiced with exquisite works from the African American art collection that hangs in the restaurants dining room, this cookbook pairs the flavors of Leah Chases dishes with anecdotes recounting the restaurants traditions, origins of the recipes, and memories. This revised and expanded edition presents even more of the restaurants favorite offerings and features a new chapter on drinks. Dooky Chases longtime chef and proprietor passed away in 2019, but these pages honor Leahs legacy through recipes and sentiments that will be forever intertwined with the history of New Orleans.

Loyal to the tenets of Creole cuisine and mindful of her country roots, Leah Chase has been featured in hundreds of publications, including Food & Wine and Saveur. In addition to having hosted her own television program, she appeared numerous times on NPR, CNN, CBS, the Food Network, and many other programs. She was a driving force in the culinary and cultural revival of New Orleans and in the international popularity of Creole cuisine.

??????????????Leah Chases accolades include honorary degrees from schools across the country. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Ella Brennan Savoir Faire Award for Excellence from the American Culinary Federation, and the Outstanding Woman Award from the National Council of Negro Women. For her contributions to the culinary world, she was inducted into the James Beard Foundations Whos Who of Food and Beverages in America in 2010. In 2016, just after her ninety-third birthday, she recelã2