Showing posts with label Felix Urbain Dubois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felix Urbain Dubois. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

Le Meilleur Ouvrier (Felix Urbain Dubois)










"Thereare thosewho look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"



Robert
F. Kennedy





  



Veal Prince Orloff,Angels on Horseback, Service à la russe(serving meals in separate courses on individualplates), Savoy Cake with Oranges -- all inventions and innovationsattributable to Félix Urbain Dubois (b. Trets 1818 - d. Nice 1901).


Influential chef, gifted multi-media artist, "out ofthe box" thinker, honest worker.


Watching Gasbagsgassing on all day/all night cable tv (simultaneously tweetingtheir mediocre, irrelevant pronouncements tothe farthest corners of an I-hope-not-too-hostile universe), I wish we had more people like meilleur ouvrier Dubois willing just to dothe work and bring their gifts -- the best of themselves --to their fellow Earthlings.  









Illustrations from Felix Urbain Dubois,Cuisine Artistique, 1870.