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Nathan Lyon (chef) Nathan Lyon is an American chef and television personality. He hosted the Discovery Health television series A Lyon in the Kitchen. A native of Arlington, Virginia, Lyon earned an undergraduate degree at James Madison University. [1] He began working in the food industry at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington as a soldier ...
Lyonnaise cuisine. Lyonnaise cuisine refers to cooking traditions and practices centering on the area around the French city of Lyon [1] and historical Lyonnais culinary traditions. In the 16th century, Catherine de Medici brought cooks from Florence to her court and they prepared dishes from agricultural products from many regions of France.
Auguste Escoffier. Georges Auguste Escoffier (French: [ʒɔʁʒ oɡyst ɛskɔfje]; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur, and culinary writer who popularised and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French ...
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul). [1]
Françoise Fillioux. Françoise Fillioux (or Filloux, [n 1] 2 September 1865 – 22 October 1925), known as "La Mère Fillioux" or "La Mère Filloux", was a French chef, proprietor of a famous restaurant in Lyon. Among her successors was Eugénie Brazier who worked in her kitchen as a young woman and continued her traditions of Lyonnaise cookery.
The Bocuse d'Or (the Concours mondial de la cuisine, World Cooking Contest) is a biennial world chef championship. Named for the chef Paul Bocuse, the event takes place during two days near the end of January in Lyon, France, at the SIRHA International Hotel, Catering and Food Trade Exhibition, and is one of the world's most prestigious cooking competitions.
Potatoes à la lyonnaise are sautéed and served with fried onions. All five recipes mentioned below, dating from 1806 to 1970, call for the potatoes to be boiled, peeled and sliced, before frying. André Viard, in Le Cuisinier impérial (1806), stipulates that the potatoes are to be sliced and covered with onion purée before being fried in ...
La Mère Fillioux in her restaurant kitchen with the chickens for her volaille truffée demi-deuil. Around the end of the First World War, after a few years working for the Milliats, [n 2] Brazier was taken on by a leading restaurateur in Lyon, Françoise Fillioux (or Filloux) [n 3] [23] in her women-only kitchen at le Bistrot Fillioux. [24]