French Food

King of Chefs

The tradition that French cuisine is special can be traced through the written tradition to the work of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his quotation 'Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.' and the first celebrity chef, Marie Antoine Carême (1784-1833), known as 'The King of Chefs, and the Chef of Kings'. 

Both these chefs left written legacies and this, in French culture, has helped to fix them as founders of French cuisine.  Amy Trubek, too, points to this written tradition and explains how, what she calls, codification, through books and written recipes has built a strong foundation for placing French food preparation at the centre of worldwide professional haute cuisine, ... to read on, please download my free working paper on French Food. 

French Food

The tradition that French cuisine is special can be traced through the written tradition to the work of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his quotation 'Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.' and the first celebrity chef, Marie Antoine Carême (1784-1833), known as 'The King of Chefs, and the Chef of Kings'. Both these chefs left written legacies and this, in French culture, has helped to fix them as founders of French cuisine.  Amy Trubek, too, points to this written tradition and explains how, what she calls, codification, through books, written recipes and journals have built a strong foundation for placing French food preparation at the centre of worldwide professional haute cuisine (Trubek 200, 8).