Total Pageviews

Please add your name as a follower of this blog if you wish to do so.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Roger Verge And Serge Chollet Cooking Class In 1978 And Again In 1991.

























Claude Patry and Serge Chollet.

Claude Patry



















Translating for Roger Verge and his Chef de Cuisine Serge Chollet in a cooking class in Palm Springs California. The bottom photos were taken in Verge's cooking school in the south of France  I translated for the class as most of the students were Americans or English. There is about 30 years difference between these two instances.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Chef Claude Patry







































The  photo on top is of the retirement party of my good friend Claude. We share many happy memories together. This group consists of a huge talent of French chefs including Daniel Boulud from New York and Serge Chollet who was the chef at Roger Verge's Moulin de Mougins. This shows the scope of Claude's vast and international collection of professional and personal acquaintances  I should have been there but, much to my regret, I couldn't make it. My thoughts were with them.
The bottom photo is of one of his cooking classes.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012

Two Great Films























These are two excellent films. They do not go into as much as detail as Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson or A Man For All Seasons with Paul Scofield but they give a great rendition of the times and the conflicts between Mary Queen Of Scots and Queen Elizabeth 1. I watch these very often and always enjoy them. Great performances , great price and great entertainment even for the casual student of history.