Elfie Casty

Elfie Casty (* in Baden , Aargau ; † September 2, 2014 in Klosters ) was a Swiss author of cookbooks .

Life

Elfie Casty graduated from the Swiss Nursing School in Zurich before she got into gastronomy by marrying Tschiery Casty from Davos. First they ran the restaurant "Zum Bergführer" in the Sertig Valley and Tschiery's Bar in Davos together. Together they ran the gourmet restaurant Tschiery's Landhaus in Laret near Davos until 1981 .

Although she was never trained as a cook, she acquired such extensive culinary knowledge as an autodidact that she achieved international renown as a representative of nouvelle cuisine . In 1978 she was the first non-French woman to be admitted to the Association des Restauratrices-Cuisinieres (ARC) and the following year as a Relais Gourmand to the Relais & Châteaux Association and awarded the Ordre du Mérite Agricole by the French government.

In 1979, her first cookbook, Affair in the Kitchen, appeared as a facsimile of her original manuscript. After Elfie Casty and her husband retired to Klosters in 1981, the book Geliebte Küche was published in 1984 . Two more cookbooks followed, With a Pinch of Passion and With Love, Lust and Thyme . The books reached a total circulation of over 200,000 copies.

From 1998 to 2000 Elfie Casty wrote a fortnightly column for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung under the title Bouquet Garni , which was published as a book in 2002.

In addition to her work as an author of cookbooks, Elfie Casty also appeared in cooking programs on Swiss and German television, was a journalist and editor-in-chief of the culinary magazine marmite and conducted cooking courses.

Her husband Tschiery died in January 2009. Elfie Casty had lived in Klosters since 1981 and wrote recipes to the end.

The book publisher Elfie Casty will be continued by her granddaughter Anina Andrea Engeler.

Awards

• 1978: Admission as the first non-French woman to the Association des Restauratrices-Cuisinieres (ARC)
• 1979: Joined the Relais & Châteaux association as Relais Gourmand
• 1981: From the French government with the Order of Agricultural Merit honored
• 1986: On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair , the book Beloved Kitchen was awarded the gold medal
• 1988: On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the book With a Pinch of Passion was awarded the silver medal
• 1997: Honored with the culture prize by the Graubünden government

Books

• Beloved kitchen, a cookbook for people with taste . 2nd Edition. Self-published, Klosters 1985, ISBN 3-905273-01-2 .
• Affair in the kitchen. . Self-published, Klosters 1986, ISBN 3-905273-02-0 .
• With a pinch of passion. Cookbook. Self-published 1987, ISBN 3-905273-03-9 .
• With love, lust and thyme. Cookbook. Self-published, Klosters 1998, ISBN 3-905273-04-7 .
• Bouquet garni, culinary miniatures and recipes. NZZ , Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-03823-032-4

Web links

• Elfie Casty - cookbooks for connoisseurs
• Maria Cadruvi: “pot-au-feu” with Elfie Casty . Radio SRF Musikwelle , broadcast “ Sinerzyt ” on August 16, 2011.
• Cookbook author Elfie Casty dies. Obituary in Southeast Switzerland of September 3, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helene Arnet: She made the Swiss gourmets . Tages-Anzeiger , September 4, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Elfie Casty - Cookbooks for connoisseurs. ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: elfie-casty.ch  
3. ↑ Cookbook with Morals. In: Der Spiegel 50/1985 of December 9, 1985, p. 249.
4. ↑ Elfie Casty: Bouquet Garni: The woe of the world. In: NZZ 217/1998 from 19/20. September 1998, p. 115 (pdf; 8.5 MB).
5. ↑ The gourmet chef Elfie Casty has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 3, 2014.
6. ↑ Bündner Kulturpreis 1997 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 221 kB).