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Cool French Food Snob
As a child, he loved to be in the kitchen. And although is name is often mentioned in the same breath as the great French Chef Escoffier, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin didn’t aspire to chefdom. But he DID like the results of the work of Chefs. (uh….that would be…..food?). So, you’re thinking – this guys a […]
22Nov2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 37 comments | Continued
Fathers of French Cuisine – Careme
He was abandoned on a doorstep at the height of the French Revolution. Though seemingly without prospects or hope, Antonin Careme would grow up to be called “The King of Chefs and “The Chef to Kings.” Careme’s incredible good fortune, some might say “destiny”, began with the doorstep on which he landed. It belonged to […]
12Nov2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 29 comments | Continued