In New Orleans, a city that the white power structure kept rigidly segregated, Dooky Chase’s Restaurant was one of the only spaces in New Orleans where black and white activist could meet to plan their progressive movements during the civil rights movement. Although public officials viewed these gatherings as a violation of Jim Crow laws, Dooky Chase’s proved to popular to close down without the possibility of causing serious resistance from its white patrons and Treme residents. As result Dooky Chase continued to feed leaders and rank and file members of the late 1950s and 1960s members of the civil rights revolution. “I fed James Meredith and Constance Baker, his attorney when James was trying to get in Ole Miss,” says Leah Chase. Every day she fed them as they participated in the court proceedings held here in New Orleans, “Every day I fed James Meredith and Constance Baker. . . every single day.” Among the many Creole soul food dishes on the restaurant’s menu I heard folks rave about its “excellent split pea soup” and crab bisque. Here is a recipe for crab bisque. Make quickly before the oil spill in the gulf coast region drives the price of crabs to high for Joe the plumber to afford.
Crab bisque recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/crab_bisque/
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