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After the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina destroyed Willie Mae’s Scotch House, waves of volunteers showed up to help rebuild the New Orleans institution founded by Willie Mae Seaton. “They said they were ‘saving fried chicken,’” says her great-granddaughter Kerry Seaton-Stewart.
“It just blew up. We were spinning in circles,” she says of the effect the James Beard award had on business at the time. Then in August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina left the city and Willie Mae’s Scotch House decimated. The restaurant remained shuttered for nearly two years. “I went away to college. I came back. I just loved her. I admired her. I didn’t think it was gonna be my life,” she laughs. “But it happened.”
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