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'World's best chef' Benoit Violier dies aged 44
bbc ^ | 02/01/2016

Posted on 02/01/2016 7:23:30 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: Jamestown1630

Don’t think we/ll ever get that recipe.


41 posted on 02/01/2016 10:33:13 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Liz

I guess not - been looking for it, and the one bgill posted ;-)

-JT


42 posted on 02/01/2016 10:39:42 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: All
L'Arpege's Apple Tart / Memorble Paris restaurant dessert

Delectable flaky puff pasty tarts topped with skillfully-crafted
apple rosettes plated on a swirl of rich buttery caramel sauce.

43 posted on 02/01/2016 10:51:01 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Liz

And a plainer version, for those of us less artistically capable:

http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2015/05/baked-apple-roses-by-any-other-name-is.html


44 posted on 02/01/2016 11:00:02 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Those are nice.


45 posted on 02/01/2016 11:19:20 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: bgill
I'm fairly sure that one's Le McMuffin du Egg. Just a guess.
46 posted on 02/01/2016 11:24:00 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Le McMuffin du Egg

That’s “Le McMuffin du oeuf”

Those French have a different word for everything.


47 posted on 02/01/2016 11:26:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator; Billthedrill
Le McMuffin du Egg
That's "Le McMuffin du oeuf"
Those French have a different word for everything.

That's right. and with sausage it's called "Le Oaf Royale"

48 posted on 02/01/2016 11:30:43 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: dfwgator
Those French have a different word for everything.

Yeah, I used to mock, but they're pretty smart over there. Every one of them speaks a foreign language. :-o

49 posted on 02/01/2016 11:34:47 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t know if this has any relevance, but:

Beau Geste
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French beau ‎(”beautiful”) + geste ‎(”gesture”)

Noun[edit]
beau geste ‎(plural beaux gestes)

A gracious gesture, noble in form but often futile or meaningless in substance.  


50 posted on 02/01/2016 11:37:10 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: needmorePaine

I don’t think Wilde was quite correct. I don’t even think art is impractical, when one figures on the power of inspiration.

I read a good article a few years ago by Gay Talese, on why he spends thousands on beautifully tailored clothing. To many people, the details of the clothing might seem useless and a waste of money; but when these old tailors die out and nobody replaces them, something very lovely will be gone from the world:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/08/talese200708

(You can do a google image search on Gay Talese, and see him in his beautiful, perhaps useless, clothes ;-)

-JT


51 posted on 02/01/2016 11:55:02 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
it's a 'spirit' kind-of-thing.

Yes, it's the elevation of the soul of an otherwise ordinary object or substance. Now when a restaurant charges $100 for a "salad" consisting of a couple of "artfully" placed lettuce leaves topped by one knotted chive, it has profaned the entire concept.

No good spirit in that sort of scam.

52 posted on 02/01/2016 2:31:12 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: BenLurkin
I guess if you put some unexpected ingredient in that works out particularly well, that could be regarded as "beau geste" or a beautiful gesture.

Vatel also committed suicide. They say it was because the fish for Louis XIV's banquet didn't arrive in time.

I think it was because he realized he wasn't a natural born citizen*.

53 posted on 02/01/2016 2:44:27 PM PST by x (* Okay, different Vat(t)els.)
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To: Ezekiel

Well, in that post I was speaking of language in translation, not the ‘art of food’, bastardized or not.

But to your point: the buyer colludes; so is anyone really guilty, or is it just a game between willing participants?

-JT


54 posted on 02/01/2016 3:25:01 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Olog-hai
I never even heard of this fellow. Does the article say what drove him to suicide?

He was despondent because not too many people ever heard of him.

55 posted on 02/01/2016 3:31:27 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

He may have been despondent because both his father and a good friend had both died within the last year.

-JT


56 posted on 02/01/2016 7:51:31 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

You’re right. I should have been more sensitive.


57 posted on 02/02/2016 4:00:12 AM PST by GreenHornet
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