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Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator, Activist, Freedom Fighter. Basically, a Nobody who is Somebody you used to know.
In 2020, Richard was one of eight women featured in 'The Only One in the Room' display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History."
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
... The show featured Creole cuisine — a fusion of primarily French, Spanish, West African and Native American ingredients and techniques that originated in New Orleans ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
... During the program, Richard and her assistant, Marie Matthews, guided their television audience through recipes from Richard's cookbook. Richard and Matthews were the first African-Americans to host a cooking show in an age when few households owned television sets ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
... From 1949 to 1950, Richard hosted a 30-minute cooking television show called 'Lena Richard's New Orleans Cook Book.' The show aired twice weekly and was broadcast on New Orleans' first television station, WDSU ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
... Recognizing her culinary talent, in 1918 the Vairins sent Richard to Fannie Farmer’s School of Cookery in Boston. Richard told the New York Herald Tribune in 1939: 'When I got up there, I found out in a hurry they can’t teach me much more than I know.' ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
... Richard helped her mother and aunt in the kitchen after school, and upon her graduation, the Vairins hired her. Richard prepared lunches, then moved on to more complex dinners and events ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
... In 1939, Richard self-published 'Lena's Richard's Cook Book.' The cookbook made her the first Black author to feature New Orleans Creole cuisine. Lena Richard was born in New Roads, Louisiana on September 9, 1892 ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
... She graduated in 1918 and returned to New Orleans where a few years later she opened her own catering business and several restaurants. She opened a cooking school in 1937 in New Orleans specifically for Black students ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
... Her show aired from October 1949 - November 1950 on local television station WDSU. Richard initially received her culinary education locally in New Orleans, and later in Boston where she attended the school founded by Fannie Farmer ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
... #lenarichard ...

"Lena Richard was a chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, frozen food entrepreneur, and television host from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1949, Richard became the first Black woman to host her own television cooking show ...
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 AM
"So every day you help her to realize what happened and you wait patiently for her to be okay with it... then you get her to fall in love with you again?"
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
"You cannot leave everything to fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand."
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
... and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time."
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
"That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life ...
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Day 13 - Drew Barrymore
February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
*Day 12
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Kisses Moments

"This chocolate melts in mouth; you melt my heart." - Unknown

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February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Since 2007, Herc has worked on a campaign to prevent 1520 Sedgwick Avenue from being sold to developers and withdrawn from its status as a Mitchell-Lama affordable housing property. In the summer of 2007, New York state officials declared 1520 Sedgwick Avenue the 'birth of hip-hop.'"
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
... Kool Herc also contributed to developing the rhyming style of hip hop by punctuating the recorded music with slang phrases ...
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
... As one record reached the end of the break, he cued a second record back to the beginning of the break, which allowed him to extend a relatively short section of music into a 'five-minute loop of fury.' ...
February 13, 2026 at 6:22 AM