She was such an interesting and down to earth lady. I wish I could have met her and known her.

I like her because she tells it like it is. Love hearing her teach and inform people

Yes she is telling the truth. I wanted to be a majorette in St.Mary’s band and sister Cynthia Marie told me I was too tall. What she really meant wasI was too dark skinned.

She's just so gorgeous. Such a radiant soul.

So wise....I love Mrs Chase!!!

Hilarious. She telling the absolute truth.

I NEVER thought I would live to hear this from this lady.THIS IS THE PLAIN TRUTH.I HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE AT ST.PETER CLAVER IN New Orleans 1963...

She was a woman of great wisdom..... I went to New Orleans several times to meet her just hate I never did. I love to watch videos of her because that just makes me feel close to her. She’s like one of the family. Love💕to the Chase family.... she will be sorely missed.

REST IN PEACE MRS. CHASE. SHE'S SPEAKING REAL TALK (RAW) I REMEMBER WHEN SHE HAD A TV SHOW THAT WAS SEEN HERE IN NEW YORK, THAT'S WHEN I STARTED COOKING MY SWEET POTATOS THE WAY SHE DID. (MY FIRST VIEWING OF HER SHOW) I BELIEVE THAT WAS IN THE 90'S. I ENJOYED HER SPREADING HER KNOWLEDGE OF LOUISIANA CUSINE. I WILL MS. YOU MRS. CHASE, I LOVE YOU SO♥️♥️♥️🍃🍃🍃🕊

Although, I'm only 65% African (light brown) I'm not at all classified as a Louisiana creole but, I have a strong DNA connection to Saint Domingue now called Haiti creoles and to St. Landry Parish, Louisiana creoles. My earliest known ancestor was mixed Indigenous Indian and African from Virginia who married a white Welshwoman in the late 1600s. They were both Indentured servants. He partitioned for his freedom in Charles County Mayland in 1703 and lost his Freedom Suit and held in bondage for his lifetime. But his children eventually became free by 1717.

Mother CHASE TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS! RIP!

I was married to a creole man, and creole is not the best looking race to me. I still find a handsome black man more attractive to me. Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder.

I love her, what an inspiration.

We are now (August 2019) here on Jackson Square, having moved to New Orleans last month, permanently. I love it being here.. And BTW every single person I have met - regardless of their culture, their skin tone, or their background has treated me like a long lost family member.

OMG I love this woman.Keeping it real.My maternal grandparents were French speaking creoles from Louisiana.My maternal grandfather looked ridiculously white.My maternal grandmother had beautiful brown skin with curly straight hair due to her French, Haitian and Houma ancestry on both sides of her family.My grandfather's family objected to their relationship and marriage.All of his side of the family could easily pass for White.The ones that did left the state of Louisiana.I know my grandfather's mother was called an Octoroon.And his father was of 1/16 African ancestry.But even as a child when I used to visit that side of the family the colorism was always there.I found my grandmother's side of the family to more loving and accepting of all shades of people.What both sides had in common was the love of food along with Cajun and Zydeco music.What really fascinated me were the elders of my grandmother were heavily influenced by the music and dances from Haiti.And this was from the early 1960s.My grandmother's Haitian ancestors came as slaves to Louisiana in the mid 1700s.While my grandfather's Haitian ancestors came to Louisiana as free people of color in the early 1800s.Its incredible the different dialects of French spoken within the same family along with some Spanish,West African and Houma words.Even though my Grandmother was around 57 in 1962,her parents were both in their 80s.Three of her grandparents and several great aunts and uncles were still alive as well.All over 100 years old.To hear them speak was fascinating.They sounded West Indian with a French accent.

THANK YOU, Mrs. Chase for telling the TRUTH!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👊🏾✊🏾😉

Interviewer is excellent...💯

Be who you are with humility.

I am a 66 year old African American male grassroots Republican who lives In Macon Bibb County Georgia 31201 and I totally relate to this lady for my mother Mary Evelyn Mitchell Durham (1937-1982) Who was born and raised in the South Atlanta community that Surrounded the old Clark College and Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta Georgia and who attended Clark College in the 1950s at its current Atlanta University west End location was put on a pedestal by our South Atlanta Community. My maternal family female power base said that my mother had the hair, the color and the Shape, She had it all and she threw it away because my mother made some bad choices in life with regard to men. This African American female power base had to yield to my mother and they were disappointed in her for her mistakes. She was their queen and alpha woman. When the Black is Beauifull movement came in the 1960s, my mother further lost her feeling self worth. My mother was a very light brown with thick straight wavy dark brown long hair and had long shaply large legs for she was A dancer, small waist. She was the combination of both a white woman with regards to the Shape of her legs and had the round buttock of a black woman. She did not have the flat buttock of a white woman. She was 5 feet 4 inches tall and at her death at the age of 45 she wore a size 10 dress.

Leah is the real deal....

She reminds me of my grandma’s so much. I just love her.

What a wonderful woman she was,RIP Ms.Chase. 1 24- 20

I love Chef Leah Chase. I met her on several occasions and dined in her restaurant, as my parents also did ever so often. I remember my father bringing home to my mother a soft shell po-boy (French bread sandwich which she loves) from Dooky Chase after a his long night out on payday. After I became an adult, I learned that such a po-boy was called a "peacemaker." What Mrs. Chase has in common with other great chefs like Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and Jacky Robert, is the of esteem others more than oneself, apparent gratefulness for the gifts God has given them, and a genuine appreciation of other peoples gifts. Such people enjoy their craft and the people who support it. Furthermore, she's a genuine human being who didn't allow prejudices to corrupt her perspective.

What a jewel of a woman!

I love Leah Chase!

I dislike snobbery, much as Mrs. Chase does...I will feel right at home in NOLA, when we move back next year..

I would have loved to have met this lady!

Hi edagdwg thanks U Tube for sharing this real history ppl living this life for real are telling the truth about what was happening to them sad god seese you for who you are sad Linda j ☮️❤️💯 I

real truth

She said you skinned them down and they are all the same. Creoles say, a waste of hair and color.

Interesting.

I see princess tiana;)

“A waste of hair and color”

I wasted 2k using racist Korean Air to Bali, but back to Singaporean Air for Life,

-__-another creole with a color complex....sounds just like my grandma...seems genuine though

What a joke that catholic schools were not qualified academic institutions! What about Jesuit, Holy Cross, Dominican and Ursuline. She’s also wrong on the Creoles. She is self-absorbed with the arrogance of the common person.