Les Dames d’Escoffier New York


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What if you could invite Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan, Marcella Hazan or Alice Waters into your kitchen when you make dinner? Or imagine having Lidia Bastianich by your side when you prepare her Pork Rib Guazzetto? With the IACP-nominated book Cooking with Les Dames d’Escoffier, you can. Over 125 recipes, as well as full-color photographs, wine suggestions and kitchen tips fill this enticing 366-page volume.

 

We are proud that the New York chapter contributed many tempting recipes, including: Ariane Daguin ’s Duck Breast with Sauteed Potatoes, Florence Fabricant’s Sweet Corn, Chanterelle, and Arugula Salad, Betty Fussell's Smoked Whitefish and Nori Pâté, and Michele Scicolone's Italian-Style Braised Short Ribs with Rosemary Polenta.

 

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In Honor of Carol Brock … NYU’s Fales Library New Acquisitions Program

In honor of Dame Carol Brock, the New York Chapter of Les Dames d´Escoffier has created the “Carol Brock/Les Dames d´Escoffier New Acquisitions Program” at New York University´s esteemed Fales Library--now home to one of the most important cookbook collections in the country. This program enables Fales to expand its collection of books, manuscripts and guides that document food history and culture. This outstanding collection supports the study of food and culture throughout the university and beyond: from nutrition and hospitality to history, language, ethnic studies, anthropology, sociology and more.

 

Permanent Plaque
Fales Library will acknowledge Carol Brock with a permanent plaque to be placed in the Fales Reading Room. The acquired books will have bookplates marking Carol and the Les Dames d'Escoffier program--something to live on forever! Our goal is to raise $50,000, which will be used over a five-year period.


New Acquisition Program
Along with our original goal of creating this Carol Brock initiative, this program will enable the mission of LDNY to expand beyond our very successful scholarship program. We will become an integral part of an exciting new acquisitions program for books related to food, cooking, wine, and gastronomy and participate in the development of Fales Library as the most important cookbook collection in the country.

 

Each of our LDNY members will become "ambassadors" for NYU in the procurement and selection of books for the Fales collection. In fact, some of our members have already contributed books and ephemera. And lastly, this program will help us to expand our brand into a new area, which will help to broaden our exposure during the next five years and beyond.

 

Specific Benefits of the Fales program to LDNY and/or its members are:

 

  • Permanent plaque in Fales Reading Room with LDNY name
  • Four-page brochure created by NYU Libraries about the LDNY/Carol Brock
    project–every member who contributed will be listed
  • Specially designed bookplates in all books associated with new program with
    LDNY name
  • Invitation by Dean of Libraries to a grand reception honoring Carol and LDNY
    initiative on October 21, 2009 at New York University
  • Every LDNY member to receive a library card to Bobst/Fales Library
    (value:$175 per year) – special access to rare books collection and others
  • Invitations to special events and lecture series at Fales Library
  • Work with NYU in-house public relations department to secure important
    stories about LDNY program–AP, New York Times, Food Arts, etc.
  • Article to be included in November issue of Progressions magazine (to
    professors, donors, etc.) and in Alumni magazine (100,000 circ.) as well as
    NYU Today (Monthly Newsletter)
  • LDNY name on a selected lecture series and special events at Fales Library






     

 
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