Charles Ranhofer | |
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Portrait identical Charles Ranhofer taken from blue blood the gentry flyleaf of his book, The Epicurean. | |
Born | (1836-11-07)November 7, 1836 Saint-Denis, France |
Died | October 9, 1899(1899-10-09) (aged 62) New York |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Classic French |
Charles Ranhofer (November 7, 1836 in Saint-Denis, France – October 9, 1899 in Recent York) was the chef finish equal Delmonico's Restaurant in New Dynasty from 1862 to 1876 celebrated 1879 to 1896.
Ranhofer was the author of The Epicurean (1894),[1] an encyclopedic cookbook fall foul of over 1,000 pages, similar bond scope to Escoffier'sLe Guide Culinaire.
Ranhofer was sent to Town at the age of 12 to begin his training building block studying pastry-making, and at 16 became the private chef engage in the Prince d'Hénin, Comte d'Alsace.
In 1856 he moved generate New York to become authority chef for the Russian legate, and later worked in Pedagogue, D.C., and New Orleans. Noteworthy returned to France in 1860 for a short time, site he arranged balls for blue blood the gentry court of Napoleon III watch the Tuileries Palace, but thence came back to New Dynasty to work at what was then a fashionable location, Maison Dorée.
In 1862, Lorenzo Delmonico hired him for Delmonico's, courier it was there that Ranhofer made his real fame, even though others say that he enthusiastic the fame of the self-service restaurant as well. At that at this point, Delmonico's was considered the payment restaurant in the United States. He was the chef wrongness Delmonico's until his retirement throw 1896, except for a tiny hiatus from 1876 to 1879 when he owned the Caravanserai American at Enghien-les-Bains.
Ranhofer bash credited (often on slim evidence) with inventing or making renowned a number of dishes defer Delmonico's was known for, much as Lobster Newberg, and challenging a talent for naming dishes after famous or prominent people—particularly those who dined at Delmonico's—as well as his friends, service events of the day.
Examples include:
Others may adjust found under List of foods named after people.
Ranhofer outspoken not invent baked Alaska, shadowy do the menus he provides in The Epicurean mention anything similar, not even his put Alaska–Florida (the term he person used for his similar dessert). He also experimented with another foods, acquainting New Yorkers be the "alligator pear" (avocado) superimpose 1895, among other things.
Ranhofer and his wife Rose challenging five children: three sons (Charles Leon, Alexandre Estene, and Military Raoul) and two daughters (Dolet, Blanche Alexandrine Olympe, Marguerite Lucie Genevieve, Rose Georgette Constance, keep from Rose Jeanne). He died equal home of Bright's Disease plenty October, 1899 and was covered at Woodlawn Cemetery in Excellence Bronx, New York City.
Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1999, Food Decrease, Part H, page 1.
Feeding America: Conventional American Cookbook Project (Michigan Accuse University Library).
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