Remembering the Queen of Creole Cuisine

If the red painted walls of New Orleans’ Dooky Chase’s Restaurant could talk, they’d have a captivating story to tell. Sit for a spell, and you’d learn about the restaurant’s profound role during the Civil Rights Movement, when it fed leaders and activists like Thurgood Marshall and later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders.

Or you’d hear about how it hosted integrated white tablecloth meals before integration was legal. You might also find out what it was like to survive Hurricane Katrina, and if you ask, hear a long list of the notable people who once dined within the green shuttered brick building. But the story could never be told without mention