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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, <i> By Simone “Simca” Beck with Suzanne Patterson</i> (<i> Viking: $30; 528 pp.)</i> 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.