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Lena Richard Papers

Lena Richard, born in 1892 in New Roads Louisiana, grew up in New Orleans after moving there as a young girl. Lena attended the Farmer Fannie Cooking school in Boston, and in 1918 she graduated and moved back to New Orleans. With the education from Boston, Lena opened up a catering business in the 1920s, as well as a brick and mortar shop called the Sweet Shop on Derbigny street. Lena opened up a cooking school in 1937, and in 1940 she published New Orleans Cookbook through Houghton-Mifflin. Before dying in 1950 at the age of 58, Lena became one of the first African American women to have her own television show; a cooking show on WDSU-TV.