BACK TO INDEX | NEXT CHEF Cooking instinctively without any formal training, Leah Chase pours her soul into her down-home Creole cuisine, mixing black-, Spanish-, and French-influenced food into one delicious menu at her New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase. Growing up as a young girl in the segregated South, Leah was 18 years old when she first worked in a restaurant. Although she had always avoided cooking at home, Leah loved the fast-paced environment as a server, and immersed herself in the job. Years later, she pulled from these experiences to assist her husband with his family's restaurant and quickly found herself running the kitchen, preparing creative recipes that naturally surfaced in her head. In the show IN JULIA'S KITCHEN WITH MASTER CHEFS, Leah Chase expertly fries chicken, rolls deliciously light biscuits, and bakes a succulent sweet potato pie, providing practical tips for home chefs along the way.   Fried Chicken  Biscuits  Sweet Potato Pie