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Referred to as the “King of chefs and chef of Kings” Escoffier played a crucial role in both elevating cooking to the status of a respected profession and paving the way to today’s somewhat saturated celebrity chiefdom.
Arguably the Godfather of modern cooking, he popularized traditional French cooking methods in the early 1930’s by simplifying and updating the elaborate cooking styles of the day. 30-minute Haute Cuisine anyone?
