"Outstanding biography .
What has borne her through it all is perhaps the most compelling aspect of This amazing woman: her faith and her family..
Through it all, she raised four children and survived the sudden loss of the daughter with whom she worked closely and a bombing during the Civil Rights era.
Leah Chase has become a living legend for popularizing Creole cuisine, for her political activism, for her tireless work for numerous organizations, and for her extensive art collection.
It has also always been a gathering place for local politicians and activists.
The restaurant was and still is frequented by prominent African American actors, athletes, artists, writers, and musicians.
Dooky Chase\'s was one of a handful of restaurants in the country where African Americans could sit down to a nice meal in well-appointed surroundings.
After her mother-in-law\'s death, Leah nurtured the former po\' boy shop and numbers business into a world-class restaurant.
Reading her story makes one think, "If she can do it, maybe I can too."After rejecting the usual occupations for respectable Creole girls to work in a restaurant in the French Quarter, Leah married Edgar "Dooky" Chase II and began running the kitchen for her mother-in-law.
In her roles as chef of the most popular Creole restaurant in New Orleans, nationally respected patron of the arts, and civic leader, she has influenced the world around her in important ways.
With the values instilled in her by devoted parents--hard work, faith, and family--she soon grew into a woman to be reckoned with.
It\'s an amazing story." --Louisiana Cookin\'Leah Lange Chase was raised in a small, country town across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.
If you never read it, you should. . . "Outstanding biography
