Famous Foodies Posters: Chefs, Cooks & Gourmets “D...-G...-”
for classrooms, kitchens and restaurants.

Paula Deen
née Paula Ann Hiers
b. 1-19-1947; Albany, GA

Paula Deen is a cook, restaurateur, author, and Emmy Award-winning television personality.

Rocco DiSpirito
b. 11-19-1966; Queens, NY

Rocco DiSpirito is a celebrity chef and cookbook author.

Alexandre Dumas, père
b. 7-24-1802; France
d. 12-5-1870

Alexander Dumas, père (which means father), best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was also a gourmet and an expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine (Great Dictionary of Cuisine), a combination of encyclopedia and cookbook, was published posthumously in 1873.

FYI - Dumas was the grandson of a French military officer and an Afro-Caribeean Creole, and the son of an improvished military officer who had gotten on the wrong side of Napolean.

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Auguste Escoffier
b. 10-28-1846; Villeneuve-Loubet (near Nice), France
d. 2-12-1935; Monaco

French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer Auguste Escoffier elevated the job of cooking to a profession by updating traditional elaborate French cooking methods and introducing organized discipline to his kitchens.

Escoffier develped several dishes associated with opera diva Nellie Melba - Peach Melba and Melba toast.

• Auguste Escoffier: Memories of My Life by Auguste Escoffier

M. F. K. Fisher
b. 7-3-1908; Albion, MI
d. 6-22-1992; California

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's writing dealt primarily with food, considering it from many aspects: preparation, natural history, culture, and philosophy.

M. F. K. Fisher quotes ~
• “People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
• “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
• “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

Bobby Flay
b. 12-10-1964; NYC

Bobby Flay is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, Iron Chef, and television personality, as well as the owner and executive chef of ten restaurants.

Sylvester Graham
b. 7-5-1794; Suffield, CT
d. 9-11-1851; Northampton, MA

The Reverend Sylvester Graham, a Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer emphasizing vegetarianism, is best remembered for the Graham cracker, a flat, crisp cookie made with Graham flour and sweetened with honey (technically crackers are salty).

Graham foresaw that the industrialization of grinding wheat, while it would produce a flour with longer shelf life, would also remove nutrition and introduce chemicals into the diet, creating a less healthy white bread.

To recreate Graham flour blend about 2/3 cup white flour, slightly less than 1/3 cup wheat bran and 1.5 teaspoons wheat germ.

• Flour Power: A Guide to Modern Home Grain Milling