Chef Leah Chase
Dooky Chase's Restaurant

Leah Chase has been cooking in New Orleans since 1946 at Dooky Chase's Restaurant. She was named to the Lafcadio Hearn Hall of Honor, Nicholls State University's John Folse Culinary Institute. Chase received the Candace Award, the Freedom Foundation Award, the NAACP Human Understanding and A.P. Tureaud Awards, the Times Picayune Loving Cup and the Weiss Award from The National Conference of Christians and Jews. She is the author of the Dooky Chase Cookbook (Pelican Publishing Co.). The biography of Leah Chase, Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This by Carol Allen, is available by contacting Pelican Publishing, (800) 843-1724 or by visiting: www.pelicanpub.com.

Dooky Chase's Restaurant, 2301 Orleans Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119 (504) 821-0600.