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  AllRefer.com - Georges Auguste Escoffier (Food And Cooking, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Six years later he became chef at the Reine Blanche in Paris, which was to become the Moulin Rouge.
He was later chef at the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo and finally at the Ritz Hotel in London, where he created some of his most famous dishes, among them peach Melba, named after the Australian singer Nellie Melba.
In 1920, the "king of cooks," as Escoffier was known, was awarded the French Legion of Honor.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It came after the dreary fifties, when the country was still recovering from the war and rationing.
The sixties was the decade of peach melba and the prawn cocktail!
This book's merits come from the fact that it is not only interesting about the history of food during the last hundred years but also illustrates every point it makes by a carefully selected recipe.
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 Cookbook Corner, descriptions of excellent cookbooks
The Escoffier Cookbook, A guide to the Fine Art of French Cuisine, Auguste Escoffier, first published in the French as Guide Culinaire, 1903
This is the classic work by a Chef, who among other things, created Peach Melba.
This book is organized in two parts, the first being a section dedicated to the principles of French cooking, things like how to make Roux, Glazes, and Veloutes, the foundations for Sauces and Stocks, Soups, Braising, Poaching, Poeling, Sautéing, Roasting, Grilling, Frying, Gratins, Glazing, Treatment of Vegetables and Garnishes.
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 Allrecipes | Cook's Encyclopedia | Melba sauce
Created by the famous French chef Auguste Escoffier for Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, this sauce is a combination of pureed and strained fresh raspberries, red currant jelly, sugar and cornstarch.
It's classically used to adorn the dessert PEACH MELBA but can also top ice cream, fruit, pound cakes and puddings.
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 Bibliography
Many familiar characters and vehicles are accompanied by concept sketches marked by Lucas's rubber stamps, from "O.K." (translation: try again) to "WONDERFUL." The marketing blitz may be off-putting, but it is fascinating to look back over the wide range of licensed products: linens, shoes, watches, and, of course, food.
You might remember C-3POs and the ice-cream bars, but did you know that English fans were offered Star Wars Yogurts with flavors such as Luke Skywalker raspberry, Darth Vader fl cherry, and tasty Jabba the Hutt peach melba?
A photograph of a tiny, vinyl-caped Jawa action figure, now selling for several hundred dollars, reminds us of the true lesson of Star Wars: You should have held on to those toys!
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