Cordon bleu (cooking school)

The Cordon Bleu [ kɔʀdɔ̃ ˈblø ] is an international cooking school. With 27 schools in 15 countries and around 20,000 students, it plays a leading role in gastronomic education worldwide.

Its name probably goes back to the first French gourmet magazine La Cuisinière Cordon Bleu ("the good cook"), which the journalist Marthe Distel founded in 1895 and which offered cooking courses with the best chefs of the time. The Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris emerged from these courses .

The title of the magazine was not chosen randomly, but goes back to the exclusive Order of the Holy Spirit ( Ordre du Saint-Esprit ), which was awarded in 1578 by the French King Henry III. Founded. The members of this knightly order had to be Catholic and noble for several generations. The medal was a gold cross, which was carried on a wide, sky-blue ribbon, the cordon bleu . Because of the elitist character of the order, the term cordon bleu was transferred to everything that was particularly exclusive (such as the Irroy Cordon bleu champagne ). Since the knights of the order met regularly for festive feasts, the expressions un repas de cordons bleus (“a delicious feast”) and être un véritable cordon bleu (“excellent cooking”) soon emerged . Since 1895 the metaphor of cordon bleu has been used exclusively in the culinary field (see also Schnitzel Cordon bleu ). Le Cordon Bleu has developed into the most successful elite school in the world of gastronomy. André J. Cointreau is the President and CEO of L'Ecole de Cuisine et de Pâtisserie Le Cordon Bleu .

In 1933, the school opened its first overseas office in London . There are 27 locations around the world, including Paris ( France ), London (England), Adelaide and Sydney ( Australia ), Seoul ( South Korea ), Ottawa ( Canada ), Tokyo , Kobe and Yokohama ( Japan ), Miami ( USA ), and Madrid ( Spain ), Amsterdam ( Netherlands ), Mexico City ( Mexico ) and Lima ( Peru ).

Known students

• Rachel Khoo
• Gastón Acurio
• Mario Batali
• Julia Child
• Giada De Laurentiis
• Dione Lucas
• Nancy Silverton
• Ming Tsai
• Cole Neilsen
• Mary Berry
• Yotam Ottolenghi
• Linda Thom

Web links

• www.cordonbleu.edu - Cordon Bleu - Academie d'Art Culinaire - Paris
• http://languedeculture.forumpro.fr/t117-expressions-avec-leurs-origines

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch , Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 126.
2. ↑ http://www.cordonbleu.edu/