All Posts Tagged With: "french cuisine"
French Cuisine’s Feminine Touch
He lived by the highway. And under it’s influence, dreamt of becoming an auto mechanic. But destiny and genes had another plan for Jacques Pic. – Taking over the Family business. His daughter shared her Father’s destiny. After testing the waters of the business World, Anne Sophie Pic returned to take her place in the […]
27Nov2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 11 comments | Continued
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 – Escoffier
Unlike his predecessors, Auguste Escoffier cooked for the public. Not privately for royalty and high society as was the case for Antoine Careme. And to a lesser extent La Varenne. But building on the foundations that La Varenne and Careme established, Escoffier donated the final refinements to French Cuisine as we know it today. Escoffier’s […]
17Nov2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 17 comments | Continued