"Peach Melba Peach Melba (, pronounced ) is a dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. The dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honor the Australian soprano Nellie Melba. In 1892, operatic soprano Nellie Melba was performing in Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" at Covent Garden. The Duke of Orléans gave a dinner party to celebrate her triumph. For the occasion, Escoffier created a new dessert, and to display it, he used an ice sculpture of a swan, which is featured in the opera. The swan"
"carried peaches which rested on a bed of vanilla ice cream and which were topped with spun sugar. In 1900, Escoffier created a new version of the dessert. For the occasion of the opening of the Carlton Hotel, where he was head chef, Escoffier omitted the ice swan and topped the peaches with raspberry purée. Other versions substitute pears, apricots, or strawberries instead of peaches or use raspberry sauce or melted redcurrant jelly instead of raspberry purée. The original dish used simple ingredients of ""tender and very ripe peaches, vanilla ice cream, and a purée of sugared raspberry"". Escoffier himself"
"dinner all white and pink, ""Borscht"" striking the deepest note, ""Filets de poulet à la Paprika"" coming next, and the ""Agneau de lait"" forming the high note."" One of his famous students was Akiyama Tokuzō Japanese imperial chef in the Ritz Hotel in Paris. In 1928, he helped create the World Association of Chefs Societies and became its first president. Escoffier died on 12 February 1935, at the age of 88, two weeks after his wife Delphine. Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier (; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized"
"Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier (; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French ""haute cuisine"", but Escoffier's achievement was to simplify and modernize Carême's elaborate and ornate style. In particular, he codified the recipes for the five mother sauces. Referred to by the French press as ""roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois"" (""king of chefs and chef of kings""—though this had also been previously said of"
"In 1893, he invented the ""pêche Melba"" in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast. Other Escoffier creations were ""bombe Néro"" (a flaming ice), ""fraises à la Sarah Bernhardt"" (strawberries with pineapple and Curaçao sorbet), ""baisers de Vierge"" (meringue with vanilla cream and crystallised white rose and violet petals) and ""suprêmes de volailles Jeannette"" (jellied chicken breasts with foie gras). Another signature dish is the Omelette Arnold Bennett. Under Ritz and Escoffier, evening dress was required in the restaurant, and Ritz was innovative in hiring popular musicians to play background music during dinner and in"
"Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including his first American hit ""Livin' In The Sunlight"", ""Valentine"", ""Louise"", ""Mimi"", and ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" and for his films, including ""The Love Parade"", ""The Big Pond"" and ""Love Me Tonight"". His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo. Chevalier was born in Paris. He made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and"
"Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street. He also was depicted along with French actor Charles Boyer in a Tex Avery cartoon. Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including his first American hit ""Livin' In The Sunlight"", ""Valentine"", ""Louise"", ""Mimi"", and ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" and for his films, including ""The Love Parade"", ""The Big Pond"" and ""Love Me Tonight"". His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo."
"François Vatel François Vatel () (1631 – April 24, 1671) was the majordomo (in French, ""maître d'hôtel"") of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Condé. Vatel was born either in Switzerland or in Paris in 1625, 1631, or 1635. He is widely but incorrectly credited with creating ""crème Chantilly"" (Chantilly cream), a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, but there is no contemporary documentation for this claim, and whipped, flavored cream was known at least a century earlier. Vatel served Louis XIV's superintendent Nicolas Fouquet in the splendid inauguration ""fête"" at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte that took place on 17 August"
"Frederic Apcar Frederic Apcar (born Frédéric Stefan Apcar; September 16, 1914 – August 2, 2008) was a Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario best known for his pioneering ""Vive Les Girls"" and long-running ""Casino de Paris"" shows at the Dunes. These Parisian-inspired productions offered a colorful variety of acts featuring singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, acrobats, animal trainers and more. Frederic Apcar was born September 16, 1914 in the French Embassy in Russia (today known as Tiflis, Georgia) of Parisian parents and later raised in Paris, France. Apcar first took interest in theater performance after watching the well-known opera, ""Le Spectre"
"about her dancing, ""I learned in Paris. I took lessons from Eugenie Fougère. She let me copy her costumes too."" The Italian actress and singer Anna Fougez adopted her stage name as a tribute to Fougère. Eugénie Fougère Eugénie Fougère (Marseille, April 12, 1870 – unknown) was a French vaudeville and music hall singer. She was often called a soubrette − a flirtatious or frivolous woman − known for her eye-catching outfits, frisky movements, suggestive demeanor, and for her rendition of the popular ""cakewalk dance,"" which in her own style included ""negro"" rhythms and paces. She should not be confounded"
"Charles Cuvillier Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ""La reine s'amuse"" (1912; played as ""The Naughty Princess"" in London) and with ""The Lilac Domino"", which became a hit in 1918 in London. Cuvillier was born in Paris, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet. He began writing for the Paris musical stage and had a success with ""Avant-hier matin"" (1905), a small scale work with piano accompaniment. Later stage works to achieve success in France and abroad included"
"Éva Gauthier Ida Joséphine Phoebe Éva Gauthier (September 20, 1885December 20 or 26, 1958) was a Canadian-American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. She performed and popularised songs by contemporary composers throughout her career and sang in the American premieres of several works by Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, including the title role in the latter's ""Perséphone"". The niece of Lady Zoé Laurier and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who also were her patrons, she initially trained and performed in Europe. She then travelled to Java and for four years immersed herself in its native music, which she introduced to North American"
"Maurice Lefèvre Maurice Lefèvre (1863-1917) was a Belgian poet, playwright and songwriter. He was a leading figure in Paris around the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century. Maurice Lefèvre was born in 1863. He became one of the best known artists at ""Le Chat Noir"". He was co-author with Henri Vuagneux of the ballet/pantomime Scaramouche, with music by André Messager (1853-1929). The artist Jules Chéret (1836-1932) created a poster for the opening of the show on 17 October 1891 at the Nouveau-Théâtre at 15, rue Blanche. The mime Félicia Mallet played a starring role. Lefèvre"
"performance but would not show approval for fear of looking foolish or uncultured. Éva Gauthier Ida Joséphine Phoebe Éva Gauthier (September 20, 1885December 20 or 26, 1958) was a Canadian-American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. She performed and popularised songs by contemporary composers throughout her career and sang in the American premieres of several works by Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, including the title role in the latter's ""Perséphone"". The niece of Lady Zoé Laurier and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who also were her patrons, she initially trained and performed in Europe. She then travelled to Java and for four"
"Moustache (actor) François-Alexandre Galepides, known by the stage name Moustache, was a French actor and jazz drummer of Greek descent. He was born 14 February 1929 in Paris and died 25 March 1987 in Arpajon in a car accident. In 1948 he joined Lorient, the orchestra of Claude Luter, as a drummer, playing in clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He also regularly accompanied Sidney Bechet in France. From 1950, he led his own bands (""Les sept complices"" and ""Les gros minets""). With the group Moustache et ses Moustachus, from 1956, he recorded, as a drummer and singer, several rock'n'roll novelty songs (e.g."
"Armand Gouffé Armand Gouffé (22 March 1775 – 19 October 1845) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, goguettier and vaudevillist. Hired as an employee in the Finance Ministry, he became chief deputy. Afflicted with a delicate health and inclined to sadness, he was nevertheless one of the most joyful poets of his time, singing the wine he could not drink and brightening his refrains with names of desserts which his stomach almost forbade him to touch. The ease of his verse had him nicknamed ""the Panard of the XIXth ». Gouffé was one of the first members of the dîners"
"died on January 8, 2009 at the age of 88. Gaston Lenôtre Gaston Lenôtre (born May 28, 1920 in Normandy, France – died January 8, 2009) was a French pastry chef known as a possible creator of the opera cake (opéra gâteau), the founder of ""Lenôtre"" a culinary empire; whose brand includes restaurants, catering services, retail concerns and cooking schools, and one of the three founders with Paul Bocuse and Roger Verge of Les Chefs de France at EPCOT in Orlando, Florida. Lenôtre was born on a small farm in Normandy. Both of his parents eventually moved the family to"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the ballet ""Romeo and Juliet""—from which ""Dance of the Knights"" is taken—and ""Peter and the Wolf."" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas,"
"Franz Sacher Franz Sacher (19 December 1816 – 11 March 1907) was an Austrian-Jewish confectioner, best known as the inventor of the world-famous chocolate cake, the Sachertorte. In 1832 Austria's minister of foreign affairs, Prince Metternich, ordered his court's kitchen to create a special dessert for a dinner to be attended by high-ranking guests. ""Dass er mir aber keine Schand' macht, heut' Abend!"" (""Let there be no shame on me tonight!""), he is reported to have declared. Unfortunately, on the day of the dinner the chief cook of Metternich's household was taken ill, and the task of preparing the dessert"
"owed everything to the civilized genius of César Ritz and his brilliant chef, Auguste Escoffier, who introduced the English to the subtlety and delicacy of French haute cuisine and invented at the Savoy many celebrated dishes, including Peche Melba and the thin toast named after the same singer"". Aristocratic women, hitherto unaccustomed to dine in public, were now ""seen in full regalia in the Savoy dining and supper rooms"". Ritz campaigned with Henry Labouchère, Lord Randolph Churchill, and others to ""alter licensing laws whereby restaurants could not open on Sundays and had to close at 11pm on other nights"". In"
"Casimir Ney Louis-Casimir Escoffier, known primarily by the pseudonym Casimir Ney or L. Casimir-Ney, (1801 – 3 February 1877, in Arras) was a French composer and one of the foremost violists of the 19th century. During the mid-19th century, Escoffier was highly active as a performer, primarily in string quartets; he was a member of the Quatour Alard-Chevillard and Société Alard et Franchomme, performing with violinist Jean-Delphin Alard and cellists Auguste Franchomme and Alexandre Chevillard (1811–1877). He was active in Parisian salons and the ""Société académique des enfants d'Apollon"", of which he was president in 1853. He achieved virtually universal"
"the last owner of Café Anglais which was demolished in 1913. The most famous dish attributed to Dugléré is almost certainly ""Pommes Anna"". Other dishes created by Dugléré include ""Potage Germiny"", a sorrel soup created for Charles Lebègue, Comte de Germiny, governor of the Bank of France, ""Poularde Albufera"", dedicated to Maréchal Suchet, Duke of Albufera, ""Soufflé à l'anglaise"", ""Sole Dugléré"" and ""Culotte de bœuf Salomon"", (dedicated to Salomon de Rothschild) and ""Barbue à la Dugléré"" (brill in tomato and parsley sauce). He is also credited with inventing ""Tournedos Rossini"", but this dish has also been credited to both Escoffier"
"Jean-Jacques Caffieri Jean-Jacques Caffieri (29 April 1725 - 22 June 1792) was a French sculptor. He was appointed ""sculpteur du Roi"" to Louis XV and later afforded lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre. He designed the fine ""rampe d'escalier"" which still adorns the Palais Royal. He is better known for his portrait busts, in terracotta or marble: his bust of Madame du Barry is at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. He made a name with his busts of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine for the foyer of the Comédie Française. He was born in Paris and came from a family"
"Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristóbal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutosławski) were asked by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelled out in musical notes (musical cryptogram) as the theme (eS, A, C, H, E, Re). Many of them were performed in a Zurich concert on 2 May 1976. The whole ""eSACHERe"" project was performed in its entirety for the first time by Czech cellist František Brikcius on 9 May 2011 in Prague. Paul Sacher Paul Sacher (28 April 190626"
"musical production successfully debuted on 25 August 2011, the theatre was soon deluged with two-to-four metres of water generated by Hurricane Irene, which struck the east coast of the United States three days later. After pumping the floodwaters from the building and partially restoring the costumes and stage sets, the musical production ""resurfaced"" on 2 September. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S."
"""espagnole"", ""velouté"", and ""béchamel"", are still known today. Each of these sauces was made in large quantities in his kitchen, then formed the basis of multiple derivatives. Carême had over one hundred sauces in his repertoire. In his writings, soufflés appear for the first time. Although many of his preparations today seem extravagant, he simplified and codified an even more complex cuisine that existed beforehand. Central to his codification of the cuisine were ""Le Maître d'hôtel français"" (1822), ""Le Cuisinier parisien"" (1828) and ""L'Art de la cuisine française au dix-neuvième siècle"" (1833–5). Georges Auguste Escoffier is commonly acknowledged as the"
"composer, and actor to many films in the 1920s and 30s. André Mauprey André Mauprey (19 August 1881 – 3 February 1939) was a French writer, composer, librettist, and actor. He helped to popularize ""The Three Penny Opera,"" and was the first to translate many of its songs into French. Working with Robert de Mackiels and Serge Veber, he wrote the lyrics for the operetta ""Tip-Toes"" based on the melodies of George Gershwin. His music and lyrics were sung by Édith Piaf, Juliette Gréco, Marianne Oswald, Marlene Dietrich, and Mathé Altéry. Most widely held works with lyrics by Andre Mauprey"
"Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (""The Love Parade"", ""Love Me Tonight"", ""The Merry Widow"" and ""One Hour With You"") and Nelson Eddy (""Naughty Marietta"", ""Rose-Marie"", and ""Maytime""). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (""The Love Parade"", ""One Hour with You"", ""Naughty Marietta"" and ""San Francisco""), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one"
"César Ritz as manager and Auguste Escoffier as ""chef de cuisine""; they established an unprecedented standard of quality in hotel service, entertainment and elegant dining, attracting royalty and other rich and powerful guests and diners. The hotel became Carte's most successful venture. Its bands, Savoy Orpheans and the Savoy Havana Band, became famous, and other entertainers (who were also often guests) included George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and Noël Coward. Other famous guests have included Edward VII, Oscar Wilde, Enrico Caruso, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth, Harry Truman, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart,"
"Ramses Shaffy Ramses Shaffy (29 August 1933 – 1 December 2009) was a Dutch singer and actor who became popular during the 1960s. His most famous songs include ""Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid, Lach, Werk en Bewonder"", ""We Zullen Doorgaan"", ""Pastorale"", ""Sammy"" and ""Laat Me"". He frequently collaborated with Dutch singer Liesbeth List. Shaffy was born in Paris, in the suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. His father was an Egyptian diplomat and his mother was a Polish-Russian countess. He grew up with his mother in Cannes. When she was infected with tuberculosis, Shaffy was sent to an aunt in Utrecht. Eventually, he ended up"
"becoming our masters."" Maurice Lefèvre died in 1917. Citations Sources Maurice Lefèvre Maurice Lefèvre (1863-1917) was a Belgian poet, playwright and songwriter. He was a leading figure in Paris around the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century. Maurice Lefèvre was born in 1863. He became one of the best known artists at ""Le Chat Noir"". He was co-author with Henri Vuagneux of the ballet/pantomime Scaramouche, with music by André Messager (1853-1929). The artist Jules Chéret (1836-1932) created a poster for the opening of the show on 17 October 1891 at the Nouveau-Théâtre at 15, rue"
"numerous personalities from the entertainment world – Guy Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Le Forestier, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Arthur H, Valérie Mairesse, Hervé Vilard, Irène Jacob, François Corbier, Cali, Sapho, Enrico Macias, François Morel, Costa Gavras. Moustaki was buried according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf. All double albums except for ""Bobino 70"" and ""En live au Troubadour Festival 1995"" which is for download only. Georges Moustaki Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; May 3, 1934 – May 23, 2013) was"
"André Gagnon André Gagnon (born 2 August 1936), OC is a Canadian composer, conductor, arranger, and actor. He is known for his fusion of classical and pop styles, including compositions ""Neiges"", ""Smash"", ""Chevauchée"", ""Surprise"", ""Donna"", and ""Mouvements"" in the disco and pop fields. Gagnon has also composed for television, including ""La Souris Verte"", ""Vivre en ce Pays"", ""Format 60"", ""Format 30"",""Techno-Flash"", and ""Les Forges de Saint-Maurice"" as well as for theatre with such productions as ""La Poudre aux Yeux"", ""Doña Rosita"", ""Terre d'Aube"", ""La Dame de Chez Maxim's"", and ""Wouf-Wouf"". Some of his most notable songs are ""Pour les Amants"","