About
American chef and writer, known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, who owned the classic New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase. She is also the author of The Dooky Chase Cookbook, And I Still Cook and Down Home Healthy: Family Recipes of Black American Chefs.
Before Fame
She was a waitress at the Colonial Restaurant and The Coffee Pot in New Orleans.
Trivia
In 2010, she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America. One of her chef's coats can be found at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Family Life
She married her husband Edgar in 1945. Their son's name is Edgar and their daughters' names are Stella, Leah and Emily. Her father was a caulker at a shipyard. She was the second oldest of 13 children.
Associated With
She hosted civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. at her restaurant.
