Carol Brock, who founded Les Dames d’Escoffier in 1976, recently passed away. Her impressive career in food journalism began in 1944 as assistant food editor at Good Housekeeping and went on to include a decade stint as the food reporter for New York Daily News and a restaurant critic for the Times/Ledger, among many other achievements. The society she founded for women “in a male-dominated culinary world” over four decades ago is now an international organization of 45 chapters across the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France and Mexico, with over 2,400 members. Read more about her distinguished career and lifetime of service here.