...Georges August Escoffier Georges August Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in Villeneuve-Loubet, France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Escoffier and his wife was Madeleine Civatte. His father was the villages blacksmith, farrier, locksmith, and maker of agricultural tools. Escoffier originally wanted to become a sculptor but he was forced to give up that dream at the age of thirteen, \ After he celebrated his first Holy Communion Escoffier was told without choice that he was going to be a cook. Escoffier started to work as a kitchen apprentice at his uncle's Restaurant Francais in Nice. He realized the significant role a good cook could play in society. Escoffier's uncle also taught him how to buy for a restaurant. Escoffier learned all of the responsibilities in a restaurant, After completing his four year apprenticeship Escoffier worked for two years at various restaurants in Nice such as Cercle Massena and Les Freres Provencaux. In April of 1865 Escoffier was recommended by M. Bardoux to work at his up-scale Parisian restaurant Le Petit Moulin Rouge in Paris.He worked his way up the ranks of the kitchen until the Franco- Prussian war in 1870. When the Franco-Prussian war broke out Escoffier was called to be an army cook in the Rhine Army General Headquarters. He was shipped to Metz, where he was in charge of the Second Division's food supply with his good friend, Bouniol. At Metz Escoffier saw the cruel truth about the war. Escoffier also had to deal...
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...Joe Smith FSA 207 Menu Planning and Equipment Selection 1/30/13 Auguste Escoffiér [pic] Georges Auguste Escoffier is the father of modern french cuisine and is recognized as the finest master chef of the 20th century. Throughout his cooking career he catered to royalty and established the kitchens of many fine hotels such as: The Grand Hotel Monte Carlo, Hotel Ritz Paris, The Savoy and Grand Hotel Rome. He also was the first chef to undertake in-depth study of techniques for canning and preserving meats and vegetables. His culinary arts included the study of seasonal items, lighter sauces and mother sauces for kitchens. During his time he teamed up with professional chefs at hotels and developed a superior reputation for haute cuisine. Haute cuisine is characterized by particular preparation and careful presentation of food, at a high expense level, accompanied by rare and exclusive wines. He also developed the first a la carte menu. A la carte menu’s specify the price of each item. He simplified the art of cooking by getting rid of food displays and elaborate garnishes by reducing the number of courses served. He also simplified kitchen organization throughout every company he worked for. He combined the staff into a single unit from its previously adapted sections, that reduced the duplication of labor. In concluding, Escoffier's most noted career achievements are revolutionizing and modernizing the menu, alonge with the art of cooking and the organization...
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...The restaurant is located in the Downtown Orlando area and is owned by a family friend. The specialty of the small, cozy place is Asian street food that people sell-or hawk-all over the cities of Asia. In order for a restaurant to work successfully the employers have to work as a team. Although everyone in the business is important, the place would be a ghost town without the kitchen staff. They range from dish washers to executive chefs, but each person is as important as the last. This paper is about the way the brigade system is set up at Hawkers and how it compares to the classical brigade system. To do my research paper, I had to find all the information I could about Hawkers and about the way the kitchen brigade was set up when Escoffier designed it. I decided that since I was unable to visit the restaurant, I decided that the next best thing would be to call the manager. He answered all my questions as best as he could. In order to find the information about the classic brigade I reread my class notes and searched the internet. The day starts every day at around nine in the morning when employers clock in to begin cooking. The first to come in is the Executive chef, also known as Tim the owner of Hawkers. He looks over the menu and checks his ingredients while making any last minute changes. Soon after, the rest of his crew joins him. There is no Sous Chef, unless you count his wife who helps keep the kitchen in order when he can’t...
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...The makers of Louisiana Hot Sauce Market it as one of the first Cajun food products to become commercially available. The sauce was first made and sold in 1928 by Bruce Foods, about five years after Baumer Foods (another Louisiana-based company) began producing Crystal Hot Sauce. Since then, Louisiana Hot Sauce has grown to become one of the iconic American hot sauces and is currently available in a large number of grocery stores. In order to get a better understanding of what has made this hot sauce popular for so long, let us take a look at what goes into it. The Ingredients in Louisiana Hot Sauce Aged Peppers Vinegar Salt The Pepper in Louisiana Hot Sauce According to the Wikipedia page for Louisiana Hot Sauce, the peppers used are long cayenne peppers. The About page on the sauce's website states that the peppers are combined with vinegar and salt and then fermented. The benefits of fermentation include a more complex flavor in addition to a reduction in the amount of vinegar needed to acidify the sauce. The Scoville rating of long cayenne peppers is in the 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville Heat Unit range, which means that it is 10 times hotter than a jalapeno. The Scoville rating of Louisiana Hot Sauce is 450, making it one of the milder hot sauces. Note that the 450 score is the same as that of another popular mild hot sauce: Frank's RedHot Cayenne Pepper Sauce. The reduction in heat is thought to be more the result of dilution with vinegar rather than the fermentation...
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...Auguste Comte grew up in the wake of the French Revolution. He rejected religion and royalty, focusing on sociology. He broke the subject into two categories: the forces holding society together ("social statics") and those driving social change ("social dynamics"). Comte's ideas and use of scientific methods greatly advanced the field of sociology Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte, better known as August Comte was born on January 19, 1798 in Montpellier, France. He was the son of Louis Comte, a government tax official and his mother Rosalie (Boyer) Comte. Both of Comte’s parents were monarchists and devout Roman Catholics. Born in the shadow of the French Revolution, modern science and technology gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. During this time, European society experienced violent conflict and feelings of alienation. Confidence in established beliefs and institutions was shattered. Auguste Comte spent much of his life developing a philosophy for a new social order amidst all the chaos and uncertainty. While attending the University of Montpellier, Comte abandoned these attitudes in favor of republicanism inspired by the French Revolution, which would influence his later work. His brilliance as a mathematician and scientist were proven when he entered Ecole Polytechnique in 1814. He left school before graduating and settled in Paris with no viable way to support himself. He earned a meager living teaching mathematics and journalism while deep in the study...
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...AUGUSTE RODIN’S GATES OF HELL The Gates of Hell (conceived in 1880 – 1917; by Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) is housed at the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. (Musée D'Orsay). This impressive gateway was commissioned by the French state. (Gerald) The new appointed Secretary of Fine Arts, Edmond Tuquet (1836 – 1914), venerates Rodin’s art pieces and commissioned the sculpture on August 16th 1880 for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The original arrangements for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs were discarded three years later. (Musèe) Therefore, Rodin left and focused on experimenting and redesigning the portal for the next 20 years. At that point, the sculpture was still remained at its plaster stage; the gateway was not molded in bronze until Rodin’s death in 1917. Rodin’s Gates of Hell was reputed as a distinct piece considering his unique interpretation of its rough surface texture and shape that demonstrates the illustration of Dante Alighieri’s famous poem, The Divine Comedy (1308 – 1321). A few of Rodin’s most famous sculptures including The Thinker (1880 - 1925), The Kiss (1888 – 1889) and The Three Shades (1902) are inspired by the alto relievo sculptures in The Gates of Hell. This masterpiece was created anon after the Franco- Prussian War (1870 – 1871) during the installation of the French Third Republic (1871 – 1940). Auguste Rodin accepted the commission for The Gates of Hell anon after the Franco- Prussian War between French and German Empires. After France has lost the war...
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...Sculpting is the art of working with stone, bronze, and wood by chipping at it to form a beautiful piece of art. August Rodin is a French sculptor born in 1840 and died in 1917. In 1882, he made a sculpture called Sorrow and after seven years he did a sculpture called Head of Pierre de Wissant in 1889. Both sculptures are made from bronze. Even though the two sculptures have similarities and differences, each piece of art have a similarity in shape, texture, light and value, and the physicality of sculpture. One significant similarity is that the sculptures have the same shape. Both faces are made from bronze and they have the same form and silhouette. The sculptures are composed of one solid form. It is called a closed form and the silhouette is solid too. Both sculptures are alike in the contour line. They have short length, thick width and a sharp focus to express the tough realism to his sculptures. In addition, the texture of the head of Pierre De Wissant and the sorrow is the way the spectators feel when they touch it. In art, there are two kinds of texture a real one and an implied one. These two sculptures have a real texture because they are made of bronze. They are smooth and sharp. Also, the form and space in both sculptures are similar. The form three dimensional. Although the space can be positive or negative, but in sculptures it is always positive. The Positive form is the part of the work that is filled with subject matter as the head of Pierre...
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...Cultural Event Report Antonio Coleman HUM 111 Dr. Andrew N Allphin 12/19/2012 I visited the Chrysler Museum of Art, on December 19th, 2012 this was my first time attending since I was a child. The Museum was free to tour and took donations. I was amazed by the beautiful sculptures as well as the paintings and how they can be well preserved for a very long time. One item that interested me came from the African art section of the museum. This item was the African drum; the drum was made of made of wood and hide, in the Cameroon Grasslands. Early- to mid-20th century Cameroon grassfields Cameroon Wood and hide Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2400 numerous independent kingdoms comprise the Cameroon grassfields, and language and customs vary from one village to the next. However, the architecture and symbols depicted on this royal drum appear commonly throughout the region. All of the scenes that appear on the drum in some way convey the king's power and wealth. The king's compound, a collection of buildings with steeply pitched roofs, appears prominently in the lower register of images. The band of animals encircling the bottom represents crocodiles and the presence of water near the king's home. Such sites have clear benefits for agriculture and would have been preferred for the elite. The pattern encircling the top of the drum represents spiders. Used for divination, spiders are also symbols of wisdom. Another piece of art that interested...
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...I visited the Chrysler Museum of Art, on September 5th, 2013 this was my first time attending since I was a child. The Museum was free to tour and took donations. I was amazed by the beautiful sculptures as well as the paintings and how they can be well preserved for a very long time. One item that interested me came from the African art section of the museum. This item was the African drum; the drum was made of made of wood and hide, in the Cameroon Grasslands. Early- to mid-20th century Cameroon grassfields Cameroon Wood and hide Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2400 numerous independent kingdoms comprise the Cameroon grassfields, and language and customs vary from one village to the next. However, the architecture and symbols depicted on this royal drum appear commonly throughout the region. All of the scenes that appear on the drum in some way convey the king's power and wealth. The king's compound, a collection of buildings with steeply pitched roofs, appears prominently in the lower register of images. The band of animals encircling the bottom represents crocodiles and the presence of water near the king's home. Such sites have clear benefits for agriculture and would have been preferred for the elite. The pattern encircling the top of the drum represents spiders. Used for divination, spiders are also symbols of wisdom. Another piece of art that interested me is The Age of Bronze sculpture. This is a full size bronze statue of a nude male. His right hand rests on his...
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...Constantin Brâncuși was aRomanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. His abstract style emphasizes cleangeometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Considered the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. In 1903, Brâncuși traveled to Munich, and from there to Paris. In Paris, he was welcomed by the community of artists and intellectuals brimming with new ideas.[3] He worked for two years in the workshop of Antonin Mercié of the École des Beaux-Arts, and was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin. Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, "Nothing can grow under big trees."[1] After leaving Rodin's workshop, Brâncuși began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known. His first commissioned work, "The Prayer", was part of a gravestone memorial. It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict "not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things." He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving. His work became popular in the U.S., however, and he visited several times during his life. Worldwide fame in 1933 brought...
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...the hate then the love they had for each other. There so many paintings from European era. Frans Halas portrait Dorothea Berck, Rembrandt Van Rijn painting of sis son Titus, Jean Baptiste Simeon, The Game of Knucklebones. Louise Elisabeth Vigee- Lebrun’s exotic painting Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin. The museum had some nice works from the Medieval, and Renaissance period 14th-century Burgundian Virgin and Child carved of limestone and Titian’s sublime Portrait of a Gentleman (1561). Much of this European art collection was formed by generous Baltimoreans, notably Mary Frick Jacobs, George A. Lucas, and Jacob Epstein. An exceptional collection of 19th-century French art includes a large cast of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, more than 140 bronzes by animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye, and paintings by Barbizon artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Installed in opulent galleries designed by the great neoclassical architect John Russell Pope, these works are accompanied by a fine selection of decorative arts, including jeweled snuffboxes, porcelain, and silver. The African Art amazed me as I thought it would not be...
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...According to the article Art, the definition of art is “the concept that any form of creativity should be valued for its own merits alone, rather than measured against some fixed set of criteria that is laid down by the art establishment.” The second article the definition of Art “expresses human imagination, not least when it engages with humanity's destiny.” An example of painting "The Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci the painting is an Image of a lady smiling because she is pregnant according to the article The Art Newspaper. This painting goes with the second definition of art because it expresses how Mona Lisa feels about being pregnant. An example of sculpture is by Auguste Rodin “The Thinker Statue” the purpose of The Thinker statue was to represent the artist as himself at the top of the door reflecting, The Thinker is a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. The sculpture is a man with a pose with hand to the chin, right elbow to the left knee, and crouching position. An example of Architecture is by Gregory Ain he is known for “Dunsmuir Flats, designed in 1937, brought in Neutra's influence in greater measure, but also displayed Ain's own ideas, limiting building costs while combining both privacy and exterior light.” An example of photography according to worlds famous photos is by Arthur Sasse, he took a photo of Albert Einstein is one of the most popular figures he is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity...
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...Labedzki (2010), " Lehmbruck's most famous sculpture "Standing Youth," measuring 7'8" x 331/2" x 263/4" (233.7 cm x 85.1 cm x 68 cm) is one of the unique creations” (para. 2). Important changes in Lehmbruck's sculpturing style began to appear as a result of his stay in Paris from1910 to 1914, after spending time with Modigliani, Brancusi, Matisse, and Archipenko. Their presence influenced Lehmbruck to move toward Expressionism (Labedzki, 2010). Lehmbruck’s experienced technique was obvious in his sculpture of "Standing Youth," in which the statue's gothicized, lengthened bodies with their lanky positioning, and the display of emerging from the earth, lean toward a representation of Modern Heroism in sculpturing (Labedzki, 2010). After seeing an Auguste Rodin art exhibit Lehmbruck’s work was forever affected. According to World Wide Art Resources (2010), “Lehmbruck returned to Germany at the start of World War I and worked in a hospital. During this period of employment, he witnessed much suffering and trauma, which was later reflected in his artwork and in his mental health” (Biography, para. 1). This and many other factors came into play to both influence his art pieces and possibly have led him down the path to his eventual suicide. According to MoMA PS1 (2009), “A radical change...
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...Altruistic thought are in the minds of all individuals. A person’s belief in following that ambition is based solely on them. The term “Altruism” was pioneered by August Comte (1851). He characterized that it meant “Devotion to the welfare of others, based in complete selflessness.” In this definition, it puts forth that Altruism is only possible if, one completely disregarded his or her own needs. Times have changed since Comte coined the term. Our economy is in turmoil. It is becoming more common to see selfish behaviors versus selfless. Does that mean Altruism no longer exists? Humans live on a basis of morals, yet that seems to be strained these days. Many fields of expertise have created theories on the basis of Altruism. There are two main perspectives that have been set forth. Evolutionary Psychologists follow Maynard Smith’s Theory of “Kin Selection” (1963). Smith proposed that altruistic tendencies are passed on through genes of an individual’s offspring. That is why a person is greater inclined to help family over a perfect stranger. The Reciprocal Perspective is another theory that has been examined. It states that a person tends to be helpful to others only on the notion that the helpee will return the favor. If these broad views are true, why are there random people helping strangers? Just recently, a prime example of selfishness was followed by a very great show of true altruism. Adam Lanza brutally took the lives of 20 helpless children and 6 adults...
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...|User | | |Course |Intro To Sociology | |Test |Quiz 1 | |Started | | |Submitted | | |Status |Completed | |Attempt |34 out of 40 points | |Score | | |Time |1 hour, 2 minutes out of 2 hours. | |Elapsed | | |Instructio|This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions. The first 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 1. The | |ns |second 10 questions cover the material in Chapter 2. Be sure...
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