‘Even if they went to jail I’d send the food to jail’

From the Dooky Chase restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, 94-year-old Leah Chase fed the Freedom Riders, the American civil rights activists who travelled to Louisiana to oppose racial segregation in the 1960’s. She tells the BBC’s Dan Saladino how her restaurant ‘changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo’ at great personal risk to her restaurant, her customers, and herself.

(Image: Gumbo dish of stock and seafood. Credit: asiantiger247/ Thinkstock)