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Escoffier is a legend amongst chefs and gourmets, who lived at the turn of the century. He turned cooking into a profession, and created the framework of discipline which restaurant kitchens use to this day.

His classic book the "Guide Culinaire" became a best selling book, containing thousands of recipes, and gives an insight to Escoffier's thinking

Escoffier even Inspired Gordon Ramsay - who said: ?Chefs do use cook books, it is a myth that they don?t?. I will always refer back to an authority like Escoffier.

Escoffier says in the introduction of the Guide Culinaire - that his focus was upon delivering Fast Food to a new generation.

The railways had started to bring visitors, who did everything at speed.who no longer wanted the palatial dinners of the past - and wanted to eat quickly!

Escoffier says in an early translation: "It is but twenty years ago since the ancestral English customs began to make way before the newer methods, and we must look to the great impetus given to travelling by steam traction and navigation, in order to account for the gradual but unquestionable revolution. In the wake of the demand came the supply.

So he explains why he started to focus on fast food "It is a mere hindrance to the modern, rapid service. The complicated and sometimes heavy menus would be unwelcome ; hence the need of a radical change not only in the culinary preparations themselves, but in the arrangements of the menus, and the service"

So Escoffier became a father of fast food for his generationreplacing long drawn out dining with rapid meals, and procedures. And he documented these in the Guide Culinaire. He said:

I therefore venture to suppose that a book containing a record of all the changes which have come into being in kitchen work ? changes where of I am in a great part author - For it was only with the view of meeting the many and persistent demands for such a record that the present volume was written?

The guide is now available free in downloadable form and is a fascinating insight not just into cookery methods, but also into history.

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