Pierre Androuët

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Pierre Androuët (born 1915 ; died February 2005 ) was a French cheese merchant , affineur , gastronomy critic and non-fiction author .

Life

Androuët family in front of their shop, 1909

At the age of 15, Pierre Androuët began helping his parents in their Androuët milk shop . He gave up his architecture studies and accompanied his father Henri on his travels to cheese producers all over France. In the 1930s Henri and Pierre Androuët developed the Brillat-Savarin , which has been produced by another company since the 1980s.

Pierre Androuët took over the management of the family business in 1948. By the early 1950s, Henri and Pierre were the most respected cheese masters in France and the world. In the following decades, Pierre Androuët gained increasing influence on French cheese culture. In 1969 he founded the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers , an association of traditional cheese producers. The full name of the organization proposed by Androuët is Guilde Internationale des Fromagers. Confrérie Saint-Uguzon and refers to Uguzon du val Cavargna , the legendary patron saint of cheese makers.

In 1989 the family-owned Androuët company was sold, and several changes of ownership followed. Pierre Androuët continued his work as a gastrosoph , gastronomy critic and non-fiction author and published books on French and international cheese specialties until the end of his life. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s, Androuët was considered the cheese pope . He died in early February 2005.

Publications (selection)

  • Pierre Androuët: 365 fromages . Robert Morel, 1969. (art object)
  • Pierre Androuët, Narcisse Roche, Gilles Lambert: Guide du fromage . Stock, Paris 1971, ISBN 2-253-00249-6 .
  • Pierre Androuët, Gilles Lambert, Narcisse Roche: La cuisine au fromage . Stock, Paris 1978.
  • Pierre Androuët, Ninette Lyon: Le Guide Marabout des fromages de France et du monde entier . Marabout, Verviers, Paris 1978.
  • Pierre Androuët, Yves Chabot: Le brie . Presses du village, o. O. [Evreux?] 1985.
  • Pierre Androuët: Le livre d'or du fromage. Encyclopédie pratique des fromages du monde . Atlas, Paris 1994.
  • Pierre Androuët: Dictionnaire des fromages du monde . LGF / Le Livre de Poche, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-253-13043-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexandra Leaf: Androuët, Pierre . In: Catherine Donnelly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Cheese . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-933088-1 , pp. 29-30 .
  2. ↑ Juliet Harbutt (Ed.): World Cheese Book . Dorling Kindersley, London a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-7566-5442-9 , pp. 42 .
  3. ↑ Sarah Spira: Brillat-Savarin . In: Catherine Donnelly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Cheese . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-933088-1 , pp. 88 .
  4. ↑ A family story . In: androuet.com. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ David Gremmels, Cathy Strange: Guilde Internationale des Fromagers . In: Catherine Donnelly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Cheese . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-933088-1 , pp. 337 .
  6. ^ Matthew Rubiner: Cheese course . In: Catherine Donnelly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Cheese . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-933088-1 , pp. 143-144 .
personal data
SURNAME Androuët, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cheese merchant, affineur, gastronomy critic and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
DATE OF DEATH February 2005