'Legend has it that there must be an uneven number of green additions and that you will made a friend for each one of them,' writes Jessica B. Harris.
Dr. Jessica B. Harris is an award-winning culinary historian, cookbook author and journalist who specializes in the food and foodways of the African diaspora. With this column,
On Holy Thursday, the last day on which meat can be eaten before Easter Sunday, family matriarch, Leah Chase, used to prepare and serve athat became a city legend. It began as a small neighborhood thing with folks in the know dropping in for lunch to celebrate with a bowl of the green Lenten gumbo that she prepared from 11 green ingredients — veal roast, sausage and more.
The next year, I returned with a group of friends, and the year following that, I made another appearance with even more friends asking Mr. Chase if he’d give me a corkage rate on the case of wine I brought. A few years later, I was giving a full-out party complete with cases of wine, place cards, table favors and more for 60 people. Commenting on my entertaining, Mrs. Chase once jokingly said to me, “Folks used to come have their cup of gumbo and their piece of chicken and go home.
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