Simone Beck
Simone " Simca " Beck ( * July 7, 1904, Normandy, † December 20, 1991 ) was a French cookbook author. Together with Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle she wrote " Mastering the Art of French Cooking", which influenced the American art of cooking and food culture sustainable.
Life
Apart from a few years where she learned bookbinding and worked for the family business, culinary arts played the key role in their lives. Even as a young girl, she had fun with it, to help the cook who cooked for the family. 1922, when her first marriage broke up, she started teaching at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris to take. She married Jean Victor Fischbacher 1937, but used her maiden name for publications.
Her professional career as a chef began after the Second World War. She was a member of the Cercle des Gourmettes, an exclusive club of female lovers. Louisette Bertholle encouraged her to write a French cookbook for Americans. Together with Bert Hulda published in 1952, What's cooking in France?. This was followed by Le devant le pruneau fourneau: Recettes de cuisine, which also appeared in 1952. It was Simone Beck's only publication for the French market. In 1949 she met Julia Child, with whom she and Bert Holle further pursued the idea to write a cookbook for the North American market. The first volume appeared in 1961, but was due to Julia Childs television show The French Chef to a great sales success. The second volume followed in 1970. Louisette Bertholle on this belt was no longer involved.
Bert Holle, Child and Beck chatted for a few years a cooking school called L' École des trois gourmandes in Paris, which was to bring closer especially Americans, the French art of cooking. The cooking school existed until the late 1970s. In the 1970s, Simone Beck published in the United States several cookbooks that they wrote independently of Julia Child. Her autobiography and her last cookbook published in 1991.