Auguste Escoffier

The featured documentary ‘Side by Side’ was an enjoyable, informative documentary that discussed the history of the film industries use of emulsion film and the cautionary switch-over to the new digital movie format. Beginning in the late 1800’s with continued development of emulsion roll film by Eastman and the pioneering photography work of Edweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince the advent of capturing and projecting moving images was at hand. The documentary covers the important developments…

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.388) is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1834 by the German painter, Carl Blechen. The piece is 52 ½ by 50 inches, depicting a scene of lush greenery and four women who have the appearance of stepping from the pages of a fantasy novel, all united within the pastel confines of ornate greenhouse walls. Despite its mystic and dream-like properties, Blechen 's Interior of the Palm House is…

This essay discusses how gastronomic philosophy and how it impacts the modern restaurants and food businesses in a global context. The discussion involves the examination of the four following cuisines: Classical French Cuisine, Nouvelle Cuisine, Molecular Gastronomy/Modernist Cuisine, New Danish Cuisine. Various ideas, values and beliefs underpinning the foundation of each cuisine will be discussed, and how each cuisine impacts modern restaurants and food businesses in a global context.…

of haute cooking. Much of this new food owes its improvement to Georges Escoffier Auguste. Auguste was chef and a proprietor of numerous restaurants, and in addition, a culinary writer. A lot of Escoffier strategies in modernizing haute cooking were drawn from the formulas invented by Marine-Antonie Carême, a pioneer of grande cuisine. By streamlining Carême's formulas and also including his own particular touches, Escoffier was able to discover a modern day French cuisine. In his endeavors to…

An Influential Culinary Figure: Julia Child Julia Carolyn McWilliams was born in Pasadena California on August 15th 1912 and was the eldest of three children. Julia’s father John McWilliams Jr. was a Princeton graduate, class of 1901 and her mother, Julia Carolyn (Weston) McWilliams, of Smith College class of 1900, a paper company heiress whose father Byron Curtis Weston, served as a lieutenant governor and was the founder of Weston Paper Co. Julia’s father had a successful career in the field…