Re: [london.food] Escoffier

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: Re: [london.food] Escoffier
Date: 19:52 on 23 Nov 2005

David Cantrell wrote:

> The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have a mailing list where 
> they send out a "life of the day".  Friday's was Escoffier.  I 
> reproduce it here:
>
> Escoffier, Georges Auguste (1846–1935), master chef and cookery 
> writer, was born on 28 October 1846 in Villeneuve-sur-Loup (later 
> Villeneuve-Loubet), Alpes-Maritimes, 15 kilometres from Nice, the son 
> of Jean Baptiste Escoffier (d. 1909), farmer and village blacksmith. 
> At thirteen Auguste was apprenticed to his uncle François Escoffier, 
> who had opened in 1856 the Restaurant Français in Nice which provided 
> an international cuisine for rich winter visitors and employed a 
> Russian chef.

[...]

I wonder if Escoffier is the etymological root of the verb to scoff?

[london.food] Escoffier David Cantrell 19:19 on 31 Oct 2005
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have a mailing list where
- Re: [london.food] Escoffier Ivor Williams 19:52 on 23 Nov 2005
  I wonder if Escoffier is the etymological root of the verb to scoff?
  - Jakob Whitfield 11:37 on 24 Nov 2005
    Ivor pondered:
    - too deep to show
- RE: [london.food] Escoffier Russell Joanne (ST) 11:50 on 24 Nov 2005
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- Russell Joanne (ST) 12:12 on 24 Nov 2005
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