Sentence examples for dooky from inspiring English sources

In this episode he rolls into New Orleans during Mardi Gras and tags along with the shrimp fisherman Brian Drury for the catch before helping Leah Chase of Dooky Chase's Restaurant whip up Creole gumbo.

Dooky Chase ultimately grew into two adjacent shotgun houses, creating more room for, among other things, Chase's distinguished collection of mid- and late-twentieth century African-American art.

Early on, Dooky diners were flummoxed by the butter sauces and accents aigu.

Dining to Help a Restaurant A lunch to help the New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase reopen will be held tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Muriel's, 801 Chartres Street, New Orleans.

In the hard-hit Tremé neighborhood, Dooky Chase's and Willie Mae's Scotch House, perhaps the city's leading African-American-owned cafes, guardians of the cherished Creole soul food tradition, have been unable to reopen.

Leah Chase, the chef and owner of Dooky Chase in New Orleans, served a superb traditional Creole gumbo, a rich, smoky gravy full of good things: shrimp, chicken wings, crab legs, sausage, hunks of beef brisket.

They were songs like "Oooh-Whee Baby" and "Cha Dooky-Doo," with easy-rolling rhythms; Mr. Neville sang their lyrics about adolescent infatuations with avuncular indulgence.

There are famous desserts like bananas Foster, invented at Brennan's in 1951, and Mrs. Leah Chase's dense peach cobbler and praline pudding at Dooky Chase; and under-the-radar diner treats like griddled pie at the Camellia Grill, where the cooks push aside burgers cooking on the flat-top to sear slices of pie in the salty fat that remains.

Chase owns Dooky Chase's, a red brick, white tablecloth restaurant in the heart of Treme, which Chase rebuilt after Katrina to keep the meeting place that her father opened in 1941.

Best yet, carry on up Orleans Avenue and at 2301 you'll find Dooky Chase (dookychaserestaurant.com), the soul food restaurant Barack Obama ate at on his four-hour trip to the city in 2008.

A local television cameraman, who was capturing the kitchen's progress, asked Chase's grandson, Edgar Dooky Chase IVIV, to name his favorite dish.