Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This

by Carol Allen

Overview

Now in paperback! Leah Lange Chase was raised in a small, country town across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.

With the values instilled in her by devoted parents-hard work, faith, and family-she soon grew into a woman to be reckoned with. In her roles as chef of the most popular Creole restaurant in New Orleans, nationally respected patron of the arts, and civic leader, she has influenced the world around her in important ways. Reading her story makes one think, If she can do it, maybe I can too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455628155
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Carol Allen began her career as an educator and school administrator in public schools in Louisiana and Nebraska and as a university professor in South Carolina. She founded and, for six years, directed the Paris Writers Workshop and organized the international conference, Women on the Move. She is the author of a book of children's poetry and has edited a collection of essays by women on living abroad. Allen divides her time between Provence and Paris, France, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	11
Chapter 1	Madisonville	15
Chapter 2	Moving On	25
Chapter 3	Love and Sacrifice	29
Chapter 4	You Do What You Have to Do	41
Chapter 5	Kitchen Ambassador	49
Chapter 6	Just Feeding Our Clients	67
Chapter 7	I Just Pray and Keep Going	79
Chapter 8	Art Smoothes the Edges	91
Chapter 9	Forty Ducks and Dutch	115
Chapter 10	A Bunch of Cayoudles	123
Chapter 11	The Next Generation	131
Chapter 12	Listen, I Say Like This	139
	Epilogue	155
	Appendix	163
	Notes	167
	Bibliography	179
	Index	183