The People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today

by Dave Hoekstra, E.J. Koh, Athena Dixon

Book Overview

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis's Four Way restaurant. Beloved nonagenarian chef Leah Chase introduced George W. Bush to baked cheese grits and scolded Barack Obama for putting Tabasco sauce on her gumbo at New Orleans's Dooky Chase's. When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael asked Ben's Chili Bowl owners Ben and Virginia Ali to keep the restaurant open during the 1968 Washington, DC, riots, they obliged,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613730594
• ISBN13: 9781613730591
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 8.4"