European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Southern cooking in Paris Kominicki staff writer Paris 9th arrondissement was Sweet with the smell of unt Ossed it had drizzled most of the but a weak summer Sun was burning through the dirty the vegetable stands around the Corner were sending out fragrant advertisements in the suddenly humid Leroy Haynes was propped in the doorway of his rib joint on the Rue sniffing the he was leaned casually against the White Birch logs that Frame the shadowed by the carved wooden sign overhead that says simply Haynes waiting for the it turns who was to deliver meat cases for the he supplies the ribs and the pork now Haynes moving slowly to a sports Section littered Corner table but Back in the old Days i used to go Down to Les to the Market and get it bring it up Here on my you used to be Able to get whatever you just Good that All gone now and i got to use this Haynes old Days were the ones just after world War the City of Light was flooded with american some for the jus established shape thousands More reporting for occupation duty in sure that they would still want dowmont Hearm cooking after having seen Haynes Hung up his lieutenants bars and began serving Southern style Gumbo and they we rent going to be looking for French i knew they were going to be looking for some Good Home they come through Paris to Germany and Back the same i could catch them coming and a grand idea that faltered at one Small Point Haynes was no rough House Haynes All american at georgias Morehouse College in the 30s knew but no All i had was the memories of the food id you remember a taste that you had and the taste rests i figured you could just finding Leroy Haynes remembers the postwar Experiment with cooking and one Day youd get the one Day youd strike on it and youd that didst take me very nor did it take the military Long to find Rue Clauzel was soon bustling with gis looking for the much talked about barbecued Chicken and Rice and pickled pigs it might have stayed like except for the Haynes it was the movie people who really made the movie the stars of the nearly 40 films Haynes appeared hed been working out in a nearby gym in the Early a broke Down boxers he but Ines Haynes started his restaurant for the occupation forces but movie people made it a living in Europe is full of but there Are times that we All remember sitting Barefoot on the front porch and eating a Good humor bar and watching All the neighbors go about their neighbor this fourth of stripes brings you some of the european neighbors who Are bringing America to the one used by movie maybe Box a Little with some of maybe work out with there was always some producer or another hanging and one Day one of them asked me if i wanted to do a Little fight a few fight scenes and minor speaking parts Haynes had landed a Small role in a film starring Brigitte after that i worked a whenever Brigitte would be making a movie shed dont you have a Little part for Leroy it was the same later on with Claudia she and Brigitte would always insist i work in their later there were Spaghetti westerns with Clint comedies with Jackie musicals with Gene the movie whenever they were in they come Down and eat then More people would come hoping to see the movie stars and the place just kept there Are obvious signs of the Days when Haynes the restaurant Walls Are covered with movie publicity Slicks and snapshots of the the great alone and the great with Leroy Haynes with Peter Otoole in the Haynes in a War movie scene with John Philip a somber portrait of Rod a Glossy of Liz and Dick dominates one a to Leroy message penned across the front of Taylors Decolle Tege sorry to write on my wife Burton but its the biggest White area diners Are watched Over by Memphis slim and Nanc Sarah Washington and Carmen theres John Lee Hooker and a shot of the Sarah a  Tbone he was a Haynes at Haynes has outlived most of gets Only rare visits from the ones who in retired he Ive been in the Hospital for the last eight months and i got to go Back for my hearts no the Hospital stay has left him Short of breath and a Little shaky on his he complains of losing sight in one of not being Able to remember things sometimes this old head just wont give up what its got inside of Madame Haynes takes care of most of the cooking now while Leroy wont admit she has remembered the taste As Well As he once there is zest in the Richness in the bark in the Creole Leroy secret sauces have lost no and the restaurant still hops if not with movie then with regulars who want to be Safe make the Butcher and the meat Case arrive and Haynes breathlessly directs the i wish americans could come to the Paris i first came he says during a pause in the Paris has everything Here has changed but you coming Here is still the Only Way to learn things you cant learn anywhere you Tell people to come visit Paris and Tell them to come visit Leroy if in ill come out and talk with and if in not Here that just Means this old heart has finally Given Haynes restaurant is located at 3 Rue open tuesday through saturday from 8 to for reservations Call the nearest metro Stop is place one Stop from place july stripes Magazine