Dooky Chase was founded by Emily and Dooky Chase, and their daughter in law, award-winning chef Leah Chase, took over with her husband in 1945.
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At Dooky Chase's, stuffed shrimp is one of their best sellers.
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Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C. Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans.
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After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, floodwaters closed Dooky Chase's for 18 months.
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From the rich gumbo to the shrimp clemenceau, Dooky Chase is worth the hype.
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This year Dooky Chase celebrated 75 years of business and Leah Chase turned 93.
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Leah died in June 2019, but her family is continuing Dooky Chase's delicious legacy.
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His father, also called Dooky, started the business in 1939 as a corner stand.
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At the New Orleans airport in 2013, the Chase family and the hospitality group, Delaware North, opened an outpost of Dooky Chase's, the restaurant she and her husband, Edgar Dooky Chase II, ran for more than half a century in the city's Treme neighborhood.
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Leah Chase passed away in June 2019, but her family is continuing Dooky Chase's delicious legacy.
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She met Edgar Chase Jr., a jazz trumpeter and band leader known as Dooky, in 214.
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Chase owns the restaurant Dooky Chase in New Orleans, and is a legendary figure in the city.
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Alana: This is Stella Chase-Reese, daughter of Dooky Chase Jr. and award-winning chef Leah Chase.
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"I've never been to Dooky Chase and not had fried chicken," said famous New Orleans chef John Besh.
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Finally, do read Jessica B. Harris on Dooky Chase's and the era of the Green Book, in Garden & Gun.
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The famous Creole chef owns New Orlean's Dooky Chase's and will receive this year's James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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If you want to say that you have truly had a taste of New Orleans, Dooky Chase is the place.
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She wanted to bring those traditions to Dooky Chase's, as well as some of the customs she observed in French Quarter restaurants.
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InStyle reports that last night, Queen Bey and her husband Jay-Z had dinner at Dooky Chase, a restaurant in New Orleans.
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At Dooky Chase's in New Orleans, if you can get there at the right time, they'll sit down and talk with you.
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But before this historic meal came another: The sit-in was organized few days earlier over spicy gumbo at Dooky Chase's Restaurant.
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Inside the New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase, the hallway from the dining room to the kitchen is left open to customers' prying eyes.
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It's why Dooky Chase embodies New Orleans cuisine and the James Beard Foundation will honor her this year with that Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Alana Yzola: On a quiet residential block in New Orleans stands one of the most historic Creole restaurants in the city, Dooky Chase.
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He returned and worked with her in the kitchen until he opened Dooky Chase's in the airport and, later, another concession there, Dook's Place.
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In a city operating under the heavy cloud of Jim Crow laws, Dooky Chase's became the only upscale restaurant where African Americans could gather.
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She saw her role and that of Dooky Chase's Restaurant to serve as a vehicle for social change during a difficult time in our country's history.
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She survives him, as do their three children, Stella Reese, Leah Kamata and Edgar Chase III, also known as Dooky; 16 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
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Dooky Chase's light-brown gumbo, packed with shrimp, crabs, ham, veal stew meat, chicken and two kinds of sausage, is based on Ms. Chase's grandmother's recipe.
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In the early 19833s, as his father's health declined, he stepped in to run Dooky Chase, the family's little bar and grill in the city's Tremé neighborhood.
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At our most recent shareholders weekend, we were able to go to one of the most historical black-owned restaurants in New Orleans named Dooky Chase's Restaurant.
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After she married local jazz musician Edgar "Dooky" Chase Jr. in 1946, the couple took over his father's bustling sandwich shop in the predominantly black neighborhood of Treme.
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"Anthony Davis had the potential, but he did not embrace New Orleans," said Edgar Chase III, whose family's restaurant, Dooky Chase, is a legendary exemplar of Creole cooking.
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Chase's New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase, was open to all in a time when it was illegal for black and white patrons to eat in the same restaurant.
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But even then, when anyone would have said it was OK to retire, to take a backseat, there was no question—she would reopen Dooky Chase and cook again.
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Alana: Dooky Chase has long been a pillar of great food as well as agents of great change, and they don't plan on leaving this history in the past.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Monday about the New Orleans chef and restaurateur Leah Chase referred incorrectly to a public-housing project across the street from her restaurant, Dooky Chase's.
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Ms. Chase's husband, Dooky Chase, died last week at 88, so we'll cook in his honor, with a heartfelt nod toward turkey gumbo's fiercest champion, the New Orleans raconteur Pableaux Johnson.
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Leah Chase, the 93-year-old grande dame of Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans, received a standing ovation upon appearing on stage in a wheelchair to accept a Lifetime Achievement award.
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Also there were Cecil Carter Jr., another black student; Lanny Goldfinch, a white student; and Oretha Castle, a courageous black human rights campaigner whose mother, Vergie, was the bartender at Dooky Chase.
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"Leah Chase, lovingly referred to as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, was the executive chef and co-owner of the historic and legendary Dooky Chase's Restaurant," her family said in a written statement.
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Although Jim Crow laws forbade the races to mix in restaurants, city officials turned the other way in the case of Dooky Chase, fearful of the public response if they tried to intervene.
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Mr. Chase, a jazz trumpeter, was known throughout the South as the leader of the Dooky Chase Orchestra, a big band that he started in high school; his older sister, Doris, was its vocalist.
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During the segregated civil rights era, Dooky Chase's was one of the few public places in New Orleans where activists such as the Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King, Jr. , could meet with people of other races.
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Ninety-three-year-old Leah Chase, the legendary chef of Creole cuisine at New Orleans' Dooky Chase, made a cameo in the special, seated on an elegant chair backed by drapes that looks a bit like a throne.
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Edgar Chase Jr., known as Dooky, who with his wife, the chef Leah Chase, turned his family's New Orleans restaurant into a showcase for Creole cuisine and a gathering spot for activists during the civil rights era, died on Tuesday in New Orleans.
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With $600 borrowed from a brewery, the Chases enlarged their stand and in 1941 opened the Dooky Chase Restaurant, which quickly became a neighborhood hub, in part because it was one of the few places where black workers could cash their paychecks.
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Now, at age ninety-five—after earning just about every honor possible, including the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America, and the Southern Foodways Alliance's lifetime achievement award—she can still be found in the kitchen at Dooky Chase's every day.
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Rowland served on a panel at the Verizon-sponsored Dinner at Dooky Chase's Restaurant, where she spoke alongside Verizon executive Kwame Trotman and opened up about her fears of raising Titan and feeling responsible to use her voice as an entertainer and role model.
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You can see these works in Nadine Blake's gallery on Royal Street in the French Quarter, on the art-filled walls of Dooky Chase's Restaurant in Treme, and in the rooms of collectors like the designer Thomas Jayne and the food stylist Rick Ellis.
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"He started his solo career out cutting insane rockin' R&B songs like 'Cha Dooky-Doo,' 'Oooh-Whee Baby,' 'Zing Zing' and 'What's Going On,' " Ira Padnos, a historian of the region's music and founder of the festival the Ponderosa Stomp, said by email.
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In his book Southern Food & Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution, professor and historian Frederick Douglass Opie chronicles three in particular— Dooky Chase's in New Orleans, run by Leah Chase; Paschal's in Atlanta, originally run by the Paschal brothers; and the family-run Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Miss.
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" – Alexander Hamilton or James Madison , Federalist No. 50 TIME OUT: 'RAISE SOMEBODY ELSE UP WITH YOU' Garden & Gun: "As the proclaimed Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase reigns at Dooky Chase's, the seventy-seven-year-old New Orleans restaurant where the famous ( Mahalia Jackson , Beyoncé , several presidents) and the familiar (her neighbors in Tremé who have eaten there for decades) come to dine and pay homage.
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She once had to stop Barack Obama, when he was running for president in early 21990, from putting hot sauce in her gumbo — a real culinary sin — and, despite pressure from a city still angry over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, she fed President George W. Bush crab soup and shrimp Clemenceau on the second anniversary of the storm that nearly closed her restaurant, Dooky Chase's, for good.
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In 2013, Chase and her husband Edgar "Dooky" Chase Jr. founded the Edgar "Dooky" Jr. and Leah Chase Family Foundation. According to their official website, The Edgar "Dooky" Jr. and Leah Chase Family Foundation was founded to "cultivate and support historically disenfranchised organizations by making significant contributions to education, creative and culinary arts, and social justice." Having spent her life advocating for civil rights, supporting local artist and musicians, and providing original creole cuisine this foundation was an extension of her passion. Through this foundation, the Chase family hosted several fundraising events to support children's educations such as music, art and history.
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Friday nights became popular, as people would cash their checks, have a drink, and order a po-boy. Dooky Chase's Restaurant with flood lines still visible, May 2006.
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Dooky Chase's Restaurant was key when King and the Freedom Riders came to learn from the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott. As King and the Freedom Riders were beginning to organize their bus boycott in Montgomery, they would hold meetings with civil leaders from New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Dooky Chase's meeting rooms to learn about the bus boycotts in Baton Rouge. The plan and organization of the Montgomery bus boycotts were inspired by the boycotts in Baton Rouge. While there were no black-owned banks in African-American communities, people would commonly go to Dooky Chase on Fridays, where Leah Chase and her husband would cash checks for trusted patrons at the bar.
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Dedrick Dwayne Gobert (November 25, 1971 – November 19, 1994) was an American film actor best known for his supporting role as Dooky in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood.
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In 1946, she married jazz trumpeter and band leader Edgar "Dooky" Chase II. His parents owned a street corner stand in Treme, founded in 1941, that sold lottery tickets and homemade po-boy sandwiches. Chase began working in the kitchen at the restaurant during the 1950s, and over time, Leah and Dooky took over the stand and converted it into a sit-down establishment, Dooky Chase's Restaurant. She eventually updated the menu to reflect her own family's Creole recipes as well as recipes—such as Shrimp Clemenceau—otherwise available only in whites-only establishments from which she and her patrons were barred. In 2018, Food & Wine named the restaurant one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years.
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The remaining boys vow vengeance on Ricky's assailants. Furious finds Tre preparing to take his .357 Magnum, but convinces Tre to abandon his plans for revenge. Shortly after, Tre sneaks out to join Doughboy, Dooky, and Monster.
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In the 2012 revival of Tennessee Williams's classic New Orleans play A Streetcar Named Desire, which had an all-African-American cast, a mention of the restaurant Galatoire's (which was segregated during the play's post-war 1940s time period) was changed to a mention of Dooky Chase's Restaurant, which was integrated. Leah Chase was also the inspiration for the main character Tiana in the 2009 Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog. In a 2017 episode of the Travel Channel's Man v. Food, host Casey Webb visited Dooky Chase to try their famed Creole gumbo.
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She received the James Beard Lifetime Achievement award in 2016 for her lifetime's body of work, which had a positive and lasting impact on the way people ate, cooked, and thought about food in New Orleans. Many world renowned chefs, such as John Besh and Emeril Lagasse, honored Leah Chase and credited her with perfecting creole cuisine. Chase fed many celebrities, politicians and activists, such as Hank Aaron, Bill Cosby, Lena Horne, James Baldwin, and many other prominent figures in the African-American community. In "Early Morning Blues," Ray Charles sang, “I went to Dooky Chase to get me something to eat.” Dooky Chase's operated under limited hours in the years after Hurricane Katrina.
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She was briefly a member of William Houston's big band, however she withdrew because of career demands. She also performed with the Dooky Chase Orchestra. As a teacher and band director she faced funding and instrument shortages and often used her own instruments and those of her acquaintances. She encouraged her students to play multiple instruments.
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After reopening the doors of Dooky Chase's, Leah Chase fed her creole cuisine to many important figures, including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase won many awards and achievements in her lifetime. She was awarded "Best Fried Chicken in New Orleans" by NOLA.com in 2014.
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Dooky Chase became a staple in the black communities of New Orleans, and by the 1960s, became one of the only public places in New Orleans where African Americans could meet and discuss strategies during the civil rights movement. Leah and her husband Edgar would host black voter registration campaign organizers, the NAACP, black political meetings and many other civil leaders at their restaurant, including local civil rights leaders A. P. Tureaud and Ernest "Dutch" Morial, and later Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders. They would hold secret meetings and private strategy discussions in her upstairs meeting rooms while she served them gumbo and fried chicken. Dooky Chase had become so popular that even though local officials knew about these "illegal" meetings, the city or local law enforcement could not stop them or shut the doors because of the risk of public backlash.
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Her father, John Castle, was a longshoreman while her mother, Virgie Castle was a barmaid for Leah and Dooky Chase restaurants. Her parents taught her and her sister to be “fiercely independent”. Doris and her sister Oretha grew up with working parents who believed you had to fight for what you wanted in life. They attended public schools in the Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, where the two girls grew up.
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Doughboy, Chris, Dooky, and Monster sense trouble, but catch up with Tre too late. Devastated and helpless, the five surviving boys carry Ricky's lifeless body back home. When Brenda and Shanice see Ricky's corpse, they break down in tears and blame Doughboy, who unsuccessfully tries to comfort them and explain the truth. That night, a distraught Brenda reads Ricky's SAT results, discovering he scored a 710, more than enough to qualify for the scholarship.
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Born Joseph Charles Augustus in New Orleans, Louisiana, he sang in his church choir and as a teenager worked for local restaurateur Dooky Chase, who gave him the nickname "Mr. Google Eyes" for his habit of ogling attractive female customers. Chase also sponsored a local jazz band, with whom August would occasionally sing. After earning enough money to buy his own PA system, August began performing regularly at the local Downbeat Club, appearing with Roy Brown.
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Commodore 64 screenshot B.C.'s Quest for Tires is an action game taking place on several consecutive levels. The levels start out simple, with Thor having to jump over potholes or duck under tree branches. Later levels become more complex, for example requiring Thor to jump on turtles in order to cross a lake, or to be carried over a lava pit by a "Dooky Bird". Other B.C. characters, such as the Fat Broad, also appear on some levels.
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From April 24, 2012 to September 16, 2012, the New Orleans Museum of Art exhibited Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III. The exhibition documented chef Leah Chase in the kitchen and the dining room at Dooky Chase's Restaurant. Asked whether she thought the rendering was accurate, Chase, 89, said the young artist had gotten it right. "I told him, 'You could have made me look like Halle Berry or Lena Horne, but you made it look like me,'" she said.
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That night, as the four search the area in Doughboy's convertible for Ricky's killers, Tre asks to be let out of the car and returns home. He realizes that his father was right to keep him from falling into an endless cycle of violence. When Tre gets home, Furious is waiting for him, but both retreat into their bedrooms without saying a word. Doughboy, Dooky and Monster find the three perpetrators in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, and prepare a drive-by shooting.
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Born Dedrick Dwayne Fontenot in Louisiana, Gobert made his film debut in the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz n the Hood. In the film, he portrayed the role of "Dooky", a friend of Darrin "Doughboy" Baker (Ice Cube). Gobert's character was noted for his ever-present pacifier. The character's pacifier has been cited as the origin for the pacifier trend that was popular among teenagers and young adults in the early 1990s (Flavor Flav, who wore one around his neck in a Public Enemy video, has also been cited as the originator).
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Leyah (Leah) Chase (née Lange; January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both 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. In 2018 it was named one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine.
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Dooky Chase's 6th Ward of New Orleans location was flooded by Hurricane Katrina, and Chase and her husband spent more than a year living in a FEMA trailer across the street from the restaurant. To save Chase's African- American art collection from damage, her grandson placed the art collection in storage. The New Orleans restaurant community got together on April 14, 2006 (Holy Thursday) to hold a benefit, charging $75 to $500 per person for a gumbo z'herbes, fried chicken, and bread pudding lunch at a posh French Quarter restaurant. The guests consumed 50 gallons of gumbo and raised $40,000 for the 82-year-old Mrs. Chase.
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At a barbecue, Doughboy, now a young adult who has joined the Crips gang, is celebrating his recent release from jail, along with most of his friends, including Chris, who is now paralyzed and uses a wheelchair as a result of a gunshot wound, and new friends Dooky and Monster. Ricky, who is now a star running back for Crenshaw High School, lives with his single mother Brenda, his girlfriend Shanice, and their infant son. Tre has grown into a mature and responsible teenager, works at a clothing shop at the Fox Hills Mall, and aspires to attend college with his girlfriend, Brandi. His relationship with her is strained over Tre's desire to have sex, while Brandi, a devout Catholic, wishes to wait until after marriage.
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The 2008 inductees were Dan Barber, Anthony Bourdain, Nancy Oakes, Russ Parsons, Zanne Early Stewart, and Steve Sullivan. The 2009 inductees were David Burke, John T. Edge, Betty Fussell, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, and Clark Wolf. The 2010 inductees were Leah Chase, Chef/Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana; Jessica B. Harris, Author and Historian, New York, New York; Paul C. P. McIlhenny, President and CEO, McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Louisiana; David Rockwell, Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group, New York, New York; L. Timothy Ryan, President, Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York; and Susan Spicer, Chef/Owner, Bayona, New Orleans, Louisiana. The 2011 inductees were Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, Lee Jones of Chef's Garden (Huron, OH), Charles Phan of the Slanted Door (San Francisco, CA), Frank Stitt of Highlands Bar and Grill, and Nick Valenti of the Patina Restaurant Group (New York, NY).
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Gustave Blache III, Cutting Squash, 2010, oil on wood, 8 x 10.25 inches, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. From April 24, 2012 to September 16, 2012, the New Orleans Museum of Art exhibited Blache's most notable series up to date, Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III. The exhibition documented national culinary star chef Leah Chase in the kitchen and the dining room in one of New Orleans’ most famous restaurants, Dooky Chase Restaurant. Gustave Blache III, Leah Red Coat Stirring (Sketch), 2010, oil on wood, 8.25 x 3.5 inches, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Blache was introduced to the idea of painting Leah Chase by his art representative at the time Eugene C. Daymude in the summer of 2009. The 20 small oil paintings that comprised the series detailed the day-to-day activities 92-year-old Chef Leah Chase encounters from early morning prep work to greeting guests in the dining room.
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