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An exhibit celebrating 400 years of African American culinary history is coming to New York | Lonely Planet

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020African American Cuisine, African American Culture

African American culinary traditions have a long and storied history, but their influence doesn’t often receive the recognition it deserves. This winter, though, one New York museum will begin to rectify that situation, via a Kickstarter-funded exhibit dedicated to the black chefs, farmers, and food and drink producers who made the country’s cuisine what it […]

The Leah Chase You Didn’t Know | Garden & Gun

June 28, 2019April 28, 2020African American Cuisine, African American Culture ...

The Queen of Creole Cuisine had another passion—collecting and heralding the work of African American artists

Leah Chase, Creole Chef Who Fed Presidents and Freedom Riders, Dies at 96 | The New York Times

June 3, 2019May 14, 2020African American Cuisine, KINDR'D ...

Leah Chase, the nation’s pre-eminent Creole chef, always knew what to feed her famous customers. The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. liked barbecued ribs, and James Baldwin preferred gumbo. The singer Sarah Vaughan ordered stuffed crab to go, and Nat King Cole always wanted a four-minute egg. She once had to stop Barack Obama, when […]

Giving Black Chefs Credit Where It’s Due – Eater

May 22, 2017November 23, 2017KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine

How Leah Chase and Rudy Lombard created the framework to celebrate Creole food.