Odell Lewis operated Two Sisters Restaurant in New Orleans’s historic African American Treme district. The original owners sold the restaurant in 1972 to Dorothy Finister a New Orleans Native with Mississippi roots. The story goes that Finister husband a native of Monroe, Louisiana regularly ate at Two Sisters and when Ms. Odell and her sister got too old to keep the place he decided to buy it with his wife to give her and her daughters something to do. Dorothy Finister grew up in New Orleans surrounded by great cooks including her Mississippi born mother from whom she learned how to make red beans and rice. From her aunt, also from Mississippi, she learned how to make shrimp and okra. Actually her aunt made it with crab and it came out more like a gumbo. But Finister decided to go with shrimp in okra and she argues that she is the one who popularized okra on New Orleans’ restaurant menus. Two Sisters is located at 223 North Derbigny off of Iberville-Bienville Street.