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America's Unknown Celebrity Chef
Publisher |
Smithsonian
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Mar 24, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:32:34

When Lena Richard cooked her first chicken on television, she beat Julia Child to the screen by over a decade. At a time when most African American women cooks worked behind swinging kitchen doors, Richard claimed her place as a culinary authority, broadcasting in the living rooms of New Orleans’s elite white families. She was an entrepreneur, educator, author, and an icon—and her legacy lives on in her recipes.

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