print email comment close World Culinary Institute: Visit With the Masters URL: http://www.worldculinaryinstitute.com/the_masters.html Description: Brief biographies of four famous chefs: Fernand Point, Auguste Escoffier, Julia Child, and James Beard. Includes descriptions of culinary careers and highlights, such as Escoffier's "revolutionizing and modernizing the menu, the art of cooking and the organization of the professional kitchen," and how Beard "appeared in his own segment on television's first cooking show on NBC in 1946." From the World Culinary Institute, a site that links to hundreds of cooking schools and related sites. Publisher: World Culinary Institute LII Database Information: Record 22805 created by Maria Brandt on 10/23/2006 Last modification on 10/23/2006 Published: 10/26/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22805