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He usually named his dishes after famous or influential people he cooked for, and he invented the dishes
that made the restaurant famous; the one best-remembered is Lobster Newberg. He also popularized
baked Alaska, and introduced New Yorkers to the avocado in 1895. He wrote The Epicurean, (1894), a
cookbook of over 1,000 pages, similar in scope to Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire.
5. Gaston Lenôtre 1920-2009
The founder of "Lenôtre. Gaston Lenôtre was the most celebrated pastry chef since Antonin Carême. An
artist as well as an astute businessman, Lenotre revolutionized French pastry in the late 1960s and early
1970s, and along with three-star luminaries Paul Bocuse, Michel Guerard, and the Troisgros brothers,
helped found the "nouvelle cuisine."