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Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine by Simone Beck accessibility Books LIbrary as well as its powerful features, including thousands and thousands of title from favorite author, along with the capability to read or download hundreds of boos on your pc or smartphone in minutes. Spicy Reading : With Love From Simca : FOOD AND FRIENDS: Recipes and Memories From Simca’s Cuisine, By Simone “Simca” Beck with Suzanne Patterson ( Viking: $30; 528 pp.) When “Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories From Simca’s Cuisine” arrived in the mail, a flood of memories surfaced from the week in 1979 when I studied at Bramafam, Simone Beck’s farm in southern France. Before the trip, I’d talked to numerous people who had either studied with Beck or knew someone who had. One person advised me to cut my manicured nails because she had no patience with such frivolity. I didn’t cut my nails, and they were never mentioned. But she did complain that I drove too slowly. When I arrived in Cannes, Beck and her husband were waiting at the train station. My friends and I rented a car, and Beck navigated while I drove. We were barely on the road before Beck politely told me to step on the gas. Beck’s book has the same straightforward quality: The recipes are based on classic French techniques, tempered by Beck’s originality. Many are not in keeping with today’s trend toward less fat and fewer calories; however, they stress the use of top-quality ingredients and rely on freshness-- be it vegetables, herbs, meat or seafood. Through her classes and her book Simca teaches about a life that is fast disappearing. At Simca’s, fresh vegetables grown on the farm were brought into the kitchen each morning. Local vendors delivered meat, poultry and fish right to the door. Classes at the farm began rather formally on Monday with a demonstration by Beck, but by the end of the week they had became sessions in which six women worked and chatted together. Each day we studied a different subject: bread and pastry, fish, poultry, lamb, eggs. Using recipes from her books to demonstrate, Beck taught us techniques. When classes were over at noon, we savored our morning labors along with local wines. Beck lunched with her husband but always made certain we had plans for the afternoon--getting us necessary reservations and drawing maps showing points of interest and good places to shop. At the end of the week we were invited to Beck’s home for Champagne. Unlike Beck’s first books, this one has the same sort of personal quality as her classes. Recipes in the first part of the book are from menus that intertwine with events in Beck’s life. She shares a birthday dinner for her father in 1913, when at age 7 she baked his favorite chocolate cake; an engagement celebration lunch for her second husband, Jean Fischbacher; a family meal after her husband’s liberation from a German POW camp at the end of World War II; a farewell lunch for students at Bramafam. From the book you learn about Beck’s meeting with Julia Child in 1949 and how their long friendship developed. (The Childs eventually leased land and built a house, La Pitchoune, on the property of Bramafam.) The book also gives readers a glimpse of Beck’s early life at Rainfreville, the small chateau built by her parents. You learn that her grandfather found the secret formula for Benedictine in an old trunk and established a family business that manufacturered and marketed this cordial until the company was sold to Martini & Rossi in 1989. Beck also talks about her recent life. When her husband of 49 years died in 1986, says Beck, “My life turned gray, and I sank into a kind of limbo.” But gradually she again found reasons to live and says of her life today: “So with my distracting pals (her pets), I keep on plugging at my work, getting somewhat nervous and irritable if I can’t spend time at my trusty typewriter every day. I love the attention of friends, relatives and neighbors, but less and less tolerate idle conversation. There is so little time left to waste . . . “ Simone Beck, a Cook, Dies at 87; Co-Wrote Book With Julia Child. Simone Beck, a passionate cook, author and teacher who collaborated with Julia Child on the influential cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," died yesterday at her home in Placassier, a small village in southern France. She was 87 years old. Miss Beck, who preferred to be called Simca, had been having heart problems for several months and had stopped eating, said Harold Earle, a cousin. "The doctor said that because she wouldn't eat, she died," he said. Miss Beck, a champion of regional French cooking, also wrote two cookbooks of her own, "Simca's Cuisine,"' and "New Menus from Simca's Cuisine," both now out of print. Her latest book, "Food and Friends: A Memoir With Recipes," was written with Suzy Patterson and published in August by Viking. 'Changed People's Attitudes' "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a two-volume set published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961 and 1970, was a seminal work in the development of cooking in the United States. "The book changed people's attitudes totally, toward cooking as a real worthwhile pursuit," said Nach Waxman, owner of Kitchen Arts and Letters, a culinary bookshop in New York. Miss Beck, he said, was "an incredibly good home cook" who was never trendy, but never dull. Miss Beck was born on July 7, 1904, in Tocqueville-en-Caux, near Dieppe in Normandy, into a wealthy family that had made its fortune from the production of Benedictine liqueur. As a child, she learned about cooking from the family cook. She studied cooking in Paris at Cordon Bleu, where she met Julia Child at a cocktail party in 1949. "We were like sisters," said Mrs. Child, after learning of Miss Beck's death. "We were a pair of cooking nuts. She was a wonderful and generous friend. We called her La Super Francaise, because she was so French: a wonderful teacher, wonderful enthusiasm." In addition to working on books together, the two along with Louisette Bertholle, the third collaborator on the first volume of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," ran L'Ecole de Trois Gourmandes in Paris. In 1937, several years after a first marriage ended, Miss Beck married Jean Fischbacher, a chemical engineer who died in 1986. She is survived by her brother, Bernard Beck, of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence, and five nephews. BEARD AWARDS TIPS TOQUE TO WOMEN CHEFS. Until very recently, a woman`s place was in the home, but not the kitchen-at least not the professional kitchen of a top-flight restaurant. In the last 20 years things have changed; more women are wearing the checkered pants in the kitchens of America`s finest restaurants. The James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the food and beverage industry, tipped a prestigious toque to this fact by making a salute to women chefs the centerpiece of its second annual gala reception, staged at Lincoln Center Monday night. Honoring the memory of the legendary late cookbook author, cooking teacher and culinary consultant, the awards ceremony and gala drew about 1,200 of America`s most prominent chefs, restaurateurs, wine experts, food writers and other industry professionals, raising some $250,000 to benefit the James Beard Foundation, a non-profit culinary-education organization based in Beard`s former Manhattan townhouse. ''Ten years ago, less than 10 percent of students in culinary schools were women; today, the number is 40 percent and growing,'' Phyllis George, mistress of ceremonies, told a packed house in Lincoln Center`s Alice Tully Hall. A former Miss America and TV morning show host, George reminded the black-tie audience that she also is part of the ''foodie'' family, clucking happily, and often, over ''Chicken By George,'' the fresh, boneless chicken business which she founded in 1986, sold to the Geo. E. Hormel & Co. in 1988 and continues to promote as spokeswoman. At this year`s Beard awards, 14 women chefs earned 15 nominations, up from three chefs with four nominations last year. Of the 30 awards this year, about half went to women chefs and authors. The post-awards reception featured a buffet dinner cooked by 20 of the country`s top women chefs, led by Anne Rosenzweig, chef/owner of Arcadia restaurant in New York City. It represented the largest group of top-caliber women chefs ever assembled, according to Peter Kump, Beard Foundation president. Fittingly, a woman chef took the evening`s top two culinary awards. Alice Waters, chef/owner of Chez Panisse, Berkeley, Calif., was named Farberware Millennium Chef of the Year, while Chez Panisse emerged as the Bread Du Jour Restaurant of the Year. Waters was unable to attend. A woman also walked off with the Sandeman Rising Star Chef of the Year award, given in recognition to chefs 30 and younger. Debra Ponzek, 30, chef at Montrachet restaurant in New York City, beat out a field that included her husband, Bobby Flay, chef at Mesa Grill in New York City, a situation chef Todd English called ''sticky-wicky,'' as he presented her award. In the regional awards for best chef, the top toque in New York went to Daniel Boulud of Le Cirque. Charlie Trotter of Charlie Trotter`s Restaurant in Chicago was voted best chef in the Midwest, defeating four other nominees, including Michael Foley of Printer`s Row restaurant in Chicago. In the book awards, the big winner was James Peterson, whose ''Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making'' (Van Nostrand Reinhold) took the medals for cookbook of the year and the single-subject category. The most poignant book award went to Carole Walter, who won the baking and dessert category with her ''Great Cakes'' (Ballantine), a cookbook initially eliminated from the competition and reinstated after Ballantine reissued it minus a recipe calling for lilies of the valley, a potential health hazard. After the awards, guests headed for Lincoln Center`s promenade to sip Champagne and sample an eclectic buffet. Offerings included plump, wild mushroom strudel with rosemary mayonnaise by Carolyn Buster of The Cottage in Calumet City, and soft potato ravioli and tartlets of hot marrow in wine by Lydia Shire, of Biba, in Boston, voted best chef in the Northeast. The awards ceremony this year honored the Who`s Who of the food world, and the Who Was Who, in recognition of American culinary heritage. Inducted as charter members of the posthumous club were Fannie Merritt Farmer, whose landmark ''The Boston Cooking School Cookbook'' pioneered the use of precise measurements in 1896; Peruvian-born chef Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, the first major Latino culinary figure in America, who was James Beard`s first assistant and went on to become founding chef of Dean & Deluca gourmet food shop, partner in the Ballroom restaurant here and author of six cookbooks; and Thomas Jefferson, third president of the U.S. and the nation`s first prominent gastronome, who introduced vanilla, macaroni and French-style ice cream to America and shopped the market with his chef for the presidential table. Among other winners of the James Beard/Seagram Restaurant Awards: - America`s best chefs: Northeast region: Lydia Shire, Biba, Boston; Mid- Atlantic: Patrick O`Connell, The Inn at Little Washington, Washington, Va.; Southeast: Mark Militello, Mark`s Place, North Miami, Fla.; Southwest: Robert Del Grande, Cafe Annie, Houston; Northwest: Barbara Figueroa, The Hunt Club, Seattle; and California and Hawaii: Michel Richard, Citrus, Los Angeles. - Specialty categories: Pastry chef of the year: Albert Kumin, Vie de France`s International Pastry Arts Center, Elmsford, N.Y. Lifetime achievement award: chef, food journalist and author Craig Claiborne. Humanitarian of the year: Gael Greene, food critic and founder of CityMeals-on-Wheels. Outstanding service award: Danny Meyer, owner, Union Square Cafe, New York City. Outstanding wine service award: Derek Pagan, wine steward, Bern`s Steak House, Tampa, Fla. Wine and spirits professional of the year: Andre Tchelistcheff, consulting enologist, Napa, Ca. Among other winners of the James Beard Food and Beverage Book Awards, dedicated this year to the late French author and cooking teacher Simone Beck: - The 1991 top cookbooks: Americana: ''Spirit of the Harvest,'' Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Convenience: ''Monday to Friday Cookbook,'' Michele Urvater (Workman). General: ''Pleasures of the Good Earth,'' Edward Giobbi (Knopf). Healthier living: ''Chez Eddy Living Heart Cookbook,'' Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., and the staff of Chez Eddy Restaurant, Houston (Prentice Hall). International: ''Simply French: Patricia Wells Presents the Cuisine of Joel Robuchon,'' Patricia Wells (Morrow). Italian: ''The Harry`s Bar Cookbook,'' Arrigo Cipriani (Bantam). Special occasions: ''New Home Cooking,'' Florence Fabricant (Clarkson Potter). Wine and spirits: ''Oz Clarke`s New Classic Wines,'' Oz Clarke (Simon & Schuster). Writings on food: ''Food and Friends,'' Simone Beck with Suzanne Patterson. (Viking Penguin). The Perrier Best Food Photography Award went to ''A Vineyard Garden,'' Molly Chappellet (Viking Studio Books). ''The Silver Palate Cookbook,''(Workman) by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins with Michael Laughlin, was inducted into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. - The 1992 inductees into the Who`s Who of Food and Beverage in America: pastry chef Albert Kumin; authors, caterers and retailers Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins; Drew Nieporent, owner of Montrachet and the Tribeca Grill in Manhattan; authors and columnists Jane and Michael Stern; and restaurant critic, journalist and author Patricia Wells.