Le Cordon Bleu

The story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Guin illustrates how the city Omelas is a perfect place to live, because of all the fun festivities that occur there, and everybody lives in complete happiness. However, the foundation of the city relies on the misery of a little child that is locked in a small tool closet. Nobody is allowed to free the child, because that would disrupt the city’s utopian society. Most of the citizens have no sympathy for the troubled child, because…

Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin reveals the following message to his audience that in order to be happy what is the prices that society needs to pay in order to be happy. In this society one of the idea was participated. In the story it seem like a perfect community. Ursula Le Guin states, “But there was no king. They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians. I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few”. Basically, Le Guin…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

Julia Child once said, “A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe," and she would know. Largely admired for her famous TV show “The French Chef,” she taught thousands of people at home how to cook French cuisine. Along with her passion for cooking, she also had a passion for wine and food, which is why she co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in 1981. Cooking was a major part of Mrs. Child's life, but it was not her only occupation. She was a spontaneous woman; during the…

Like many others, I was lured into enrolling at Le Cordon Bleu. With their promises they give you the belief that you'll be graduating from a prestigious, accredited and respectable college, with knowledge that will make you successful in a rewarding career. I competed half the program, started working part of the way in, and realized that while the schools kitchen equipment and the books and supplies that come as requirements with our tuition were expensive and new, the actual education is…

be the most informative as a new culinary student? Why? Be specific in your answer why this interview was actually informative. I would say the most informative for me is the interview with Bethany L.V. Bowan, Pennsylvania Culinary Institute, Le Cordon Bleu, Graduation: December 2007. She was very honest and approached the topics directly. During the interview she was not trying to put herself as the perfect example. She gave the statement of how things were, and how she responded. The personal…

Julia Child was the first American to be in a cooking show about French cuisines. She also was the first person to have deaf captions on her T.V show, which was called The French Chef. Julia Child did many things that brought the average cook closer to fine French cuisine. Julia Carolyn Child (maiden name McWilliams) was born in Pasadena, California to John McWilliams and Julia Weston on August 15th, 1912. She was the oldest of 3 kids, born before John III and Dorothy Dean McWilliams. Julia…

recipes. Furthermore, Child overcame problems. When she became interested in food, she could not cook. “Julia had the palate but not the instincts” (Shapiro, 2007). When she moved to France, she solved her problem by taking cooking lessons at Le Cordon Bleu and cooking finally made sense to…