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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]
André J. Cointreau is the president and CEO of l’Ecole de Cuisine et de Pâtisserie Le Cordon Bleu, better known as Le Cordon Bleu. During his tenure, he has shifted the Le Cordon Bleu business from one school in Paris to a multinational concern with nearly 30 schools in 15 countries.
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 ...
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]
Henri-Paul Pellaprat (pronounced [ɑ̃ʁi pɔl pɛlapʁa]; Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 1869–1954) was a French chef, founder with the journalist Marthe Distel of Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. He was the author of La cuisine familiale et pratique and other classic French cookery texts. [ 1 ]
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]
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Boston offered the Associate of Applied Science Degree in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts. LCB included a complete curriculum, with general education classes such as Math and English. The program was designed to be 12 months of coursework on campus, and then three months work in an externship. Graduates ...
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