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The French term cordon bleu is translated as "blue ribbon". [4] According to Larousse Gastronomique, the cordon bleu "was originally a wide blue ribbon worn by members of the highest order of knighthood, L'Ordre des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit, instituted by Henri III of France in 1578. By extension, the term has since been applied to food ...
Marthe Distel started the culinary magazine La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu. To prompt readership, Distel offered subscribers cooking lessons with professional chefs. The first class was held in January 1895 in the kitchens of the Palais Royal. The classes led to the development of a more formal school, now known as Le Cordon Bleu. [2]
Dione Lucas (pronounced dee-OH-nee; born Dione Wilson; 10 October 1909 – 18 December 1971) [1] was an English chef, [2] and the first female graduate of Le Cordon Bleu.Her father was the architect, jeweller and designer Henry Wilson, and her sister was the violinist Orrea Pernel (1906–1993). [3]
Cordon bleu may refer to: the blue ribbon of the Order of the Holy Spirit; the blue ribbon of the Order of St. Andrew, Russian Empire; La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu, a 19th-century culinary magazine; Le Cordon Bleu, international group of hospitality management and cooking schools teaching French cuisine
Élisabeth Brassart (1897–1992) was the proprietor of the Le Cordon Bleu school in Paris from 1945 to 1984. [1] Le Cordon Bleu had been founded in 1895 by Marthe Distel and Henri-Paul Pellaprat . In 1945, after the end of WWII , she purchased what had become a struggling school from a Catholic orphanage which had inherited it after the school ...
Le Cordon Bleu ([lə kɔʁdɔ̃ blø]; French: "The Blue Ribbon"; LCB) is a French hospitality and culinary education institution, teaching haute cuisine. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The institution consists of 35 institutes in 20 countries and has over 20,000 attendees. [1]
Prior to the creation of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1578 by King Henry III, the senior order of chivalry in France had been the Order of Saint Michael. [2] The idea flashed to him in Venice, where he had seen the original manuscript of an Order of the Saint Esprit or Droit Desir founded in 1353 by Louis of Anjou, titular king of Jerusalem and Sicily and husband of Joanna, queen of Naples ...
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