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Georges Auguste Escoffier began his career at the age of 13 and retired 61 years later. Escoffier made French Cuisine world famous and documented its methods and techniques. He moved menus, cooking technique and the organization of the professional kitchen into what we are familiar with today. His three cook books, especially Le Guide Culinaire first published in 1903, are read by all levels of culinarians from Culinary Students to Certified Master Chefs for inspiration.

Escoffier On Line is dedicated to preserving the history of Escoffier and the Great Chefs. We hope to add the Culinary Community by giving Chefs, Culinary Students and all those interested in the Culinary Arts a Culinary Community where we can all share our love of all things Culinary. We are also have and are adding extensive content on World Cuisines and Trave, Wine, Nutrition, and many other topics.

Green Restaurants

Going Green in the Foodservice Industry

Going green is the biggest issue on everybody’s mind, including the food service industry! With Americans spending their money on food from restaurants, it’s good to know the facts about where you’re eating.

One restaurant can produce nearly 100,000 pounds of garbage a year. The upside to this is that 95% of it is either recyclable or compostable. There are many ways for people to change their habits to go green! Restaurants use some of the largest amounts of electric energy compared to office and retail jobs. One piece of kitchen machinery uses up an amount of energy equivalent to that of a household! Thirteen percent of a restaurants energy usage is solely from lighting.

Catering

Valentines Day Idea and Valentine Day Dinner Menu

This year Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday and what better way to spend a family day than with the ones you love most. Here is a Valentines Day idea as well as a Valentine Day dinner menu that the whole family can enjoy.

One Valentine's idea is to craft your own Valentine Day card and then collect cards you receive and place them in a Valentine's Day box that you create yourself. Make and share your Valentine Day card with your friends and family. This Valentines Day idea is easy, doesn't require many materials and the whole family can participate in this activity.

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Wine Articles

I Love Organic Wine - A Sylvaner From Alsace, France

We have already reviewed several wines, both white and red, from Alsace, the famous wine-growing region of eastern France. This wine is organic, or perhaps more precisely, this wine comes from vineyards that are on the way to organic certification. Fans of organic products know that certification is a lengthy, arduous process that serves to protect the consumer. If you are a real hardliner you won't drink wines that are not fully certified as organic. But other fans of organic wine will consider non-certified wines from producers who have made a true commitment to organic wine, as is the case of the wine reviewed below.

Alsace is located in eastern France and borders Germany. Although its wine-producing area is quite small, in fact the second smallest of France's eleven wine regions, it is quite well known for distinctive wines. The overwhelming majority of Alsatian wine is white. The Sylvaner grape tends not to be highly regarded but perhaps in the right winemaker's hands...

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I Love Italian Travel - Carnevale Season In Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuili

Venezia Giulia is a multilingual region situated in northeast Italy. It borders on the Italian region of Veneto to the west, Austria to the north, and Slovenia to the east, and to the south, the Gulf of Venice. Its capital city, Trieste, officially became part of Italy in 1954, in a sense ending World War II. So it's no surprise that with such surroundings, Carnevale in Friuili takes on many multicultural aspects.

Sauris is a village of some four hundred in the Carnic Alps about 80 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of Trieste. It has the highest elevation in the area, almost one mile (1400 meters). Unlike most other Italian sites, it gets very cold in Sauris during Carnevale. And yet both locals and guests still manage to enjoy themselves. This is one of the oldest such celebrations in the Alps and the traditions of the past are very present, including the local name Voshankh: Lanterne e Maschere (Voshankh: Lanterns and Masks). Major Carnevale features include the ever-present wooden masks and virtually unique promenades on snow covered paths in the forest in which the participants carry lanterns. This is definitely a winter carnival.

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Recipes

Jamaican Cooking for the Novice

The spicy sweet flavors of the isle of Jamaica are sure to brighten up a dull meal any time. Here are a couple of recipes that are sure to bring some spice to the table! One of the most popular and well known signatures of Jamaican cooking has got to be the jerk rub. Here is a very good and relatively simple jerk seasoning recipe.

Jerk Seasoning

Ingredients:
4 scotch bonnet peppers
4 (1 inch thick) pieces of ginger
4 tsp Jamaican allspice
6 bay leaves
2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp whole coriander
2 tsp whole black peppercorns
2 lime
2 teaspoon salt
10 cloves garlic

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Catering

Easy Recipes and Tips for Entertaining Successfully

A lot of people feel anxious about entertaining guests. Like most things in life, it becomes easier with time and more experience, but even then writing a list or two will make the even so much easier to run successfully.

Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you have organized a party and found at the end of the evening or the next day, that you have not put all the food items out for the guests? It is something that frequently happens at parties. Hostesses get busy with guests and
making sure everyone is happy or they get friends coming in the kitchen trying to help but end up chatting and then everything becomes a muddle.

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