All Posts Tagged With: "La varenne"
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
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