While discussing her new competition series, Family Recipe Showdown, during an interview with PEOPLE, the Academy ...

Octavia Spencer is host and New Orleans' Edgar 'Dook' Chase IV is the resident expert for Food Network's new home cooking ...

New Orleans residents gathered at Dooky Chase Restaurant in Treme to celebrate Holy Thursday with a special gumbo meal, honoring Creole and Catholic traditions.A bowl of Gumbo Z'herbes is a years ...

Whether the gumbo you deem “authentic” is Creole or Cajun, thinner like at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant or thicker like the version served at Radosta’s in Metairie, Louisiana, and whether it's ...

Edgar knows quite a lot about family recipes. Dooky Chase’s, originally founded in 1941 and turned into a sit-down creole gem by the Chase family’s daughter-in-law, Leah, remains an ...

Chef Edgar "Dook" Chase IV, left, and Wendy Baham, stir gumbo z'herbes during Holy Thursday at Dooky Chase's Restaurant on Orleans Avenue in New Orleans, April 17, 2025.

At the famed Dooky Chase Restaurant in New Orleans, where civil rights movement veterans still recall making plans to change the world over bowls of gumbo, black and white foodies now line up for ...

The place is teeming with history; Dooky Chase’s sits in Tremé, the oldest black neighborhood in the country, and nearly 80 years after it opened in 1941, it’s still the place to be.