"The Richest and Most Famous Private Chef in the World" Joseph Donon: Gilded Age Dining with Florence Vanderbilt Twombly

by Walter Cummins (Editor), Arthur T Vanderbilt II (Editor)

Overview

The New Yorker called him, “probably the richest and most famous private chef in the world,” and there is every reason to believe that Mrs. Twombly’s beloved French chef, Joseph Donon, was just that. ... In retirement he realized how extraordinary had been what he had witnessed in his career at Florham and with the Twomblys at their homes in New York City and Newport, a way of life gone forever, and set out to record his memories in a draft memoir he dictated to a friend, and in several interviews with The New Yorker, including a lengthy profile. “It was an epoch! It was a special time, and the way those houses were run should not be forgotten.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692893371
Publisher:	Florham Books
Publication date:	05/26/2017
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

Table of Contents

Contents

Chef Donon’s Recipes — 4

Chef Donon and the Twomblys — 5

Chef Donon’s Memoir

The Beginning — 11

To America–On the “Titanic” — 18

A Vanderbilt Hotel — 44

“Like a Queen” — 49

The End of an Epoch — 56

“Chez-Nous” — 60

The Best of the Best — 65

Chef Donon the Les Amis d’Escoffier Society — 83

Chef Donon’s Recipes — 85

Joseph Donon’s Final Years — 89

Recipes

Chicken à la King — 10

Homard à l’Américaine — 17

Melon Rafraîchi au Kirsch — 43

Croissants — 48

Crabes a la Diable — 59

Homard Lafayette — 69

Terrapin à la Florham — 81

Broiled Deviled Chicken — 87

Coeur a la Creme — 87

Gourgere Bourguingnonne — 88