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Words can barely do justice to this lavishly rich and detailed chronicle of Richard Olney by Richard Olney. Detailing a lifetime of people and places and events Richard Olney captures the heart and imagination of food and wine lovers throughout the world. "...And then the glorious Romanée-Saint-Vivant was served; It had been packed in ice; it was iced; it had sunk to within a few degrees of freezing! In our glasses was only a mute reproach for mindless stupidity (two months later a bottle of the same wine was opened for me in the cellars of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Its eloquence was heartbreaking, the more so because the pain, the helpless rage, the dumb despair of that summer day were so vividly still with me)." The book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical description of food that becomes so real-as if you were actually there with Olney: "My first meal in Paris was in a glum little dining room for boarders, in the Hôtel de l'Académie, at the corner of rue de l'Université and the rue des Saints-Pères. The plat du jour was 'gibelotte, pommes mousseline'- rabbit and white wine fricassee with mashed potatoes. The gibelotte was all right, the mashed potatoes the best I had ever eaten, pushed through a sieve, buttered and moistened with enough of their hot cooking water to bring them to a supple, not quite pourable consistency--no milk, no cream, no beating. I had never dreamt of mashing potatoes without milk and, in Iowa, everyone believed that, the more you beat them, the better they were." This book is a long-awaited story of the man who brought the simplicity of French cooking to the United States, and a statement about one of the finest and most important food professionals in the world. About the Author: Olney with Lulu Peyraud
Richard Olney is an American who has lived in Europe for almost 50 years. Author of more than 35 titles and inspiration to hundreds more his works include French Menu Cookbook, the seminal Simple French Food, The Good Cook, Yquem, Ten Vineyard Lunches, Romanée-Conti, Provence the Beautiful, Lulu's Provençal Table, Good Cook's Encyclopedia, and French Wine and Food. A resident of Solliès-Toucas, France, Olney is close to his art and family and friends.
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Richard Olney died unexpectedly on 31 July 1999. Author of more than 35 titles and inspiration to hundreds more, he was a resident of Sollies-Toucas, France.
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