Happy Birthday!

[lsanderson]

A happy birthday to Georges Auguste Escoffier, who was born in 1846 and, it is said, popularized serving food in courses.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

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[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

We've just finished making a massive amount of chicken paprikash to take to a soup kitchen in a few minutes (and we have the noodles, caraway and butter to cook down there).

If I'd known about Escoffier's birthday, we might have made it turkey tetrazzini (which, using the original Escoffier recipe, is *amazing*!).

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised. In my schooling on culinary history, this gentleman was accorded that honor, Antonin Carême. He, IIRC laid out and tested the starts of modern French cooking.