History Challenge & Journal

[Siani]

I thought the first pic was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No Sateeb sorry

More clues later ...yum!

[dtaai-maai]

...yum!

Aha!! Mrs Beeton!!

[caller]

No to the above Caller

Not political, not poetry...Infidelity? They may have been but not what I am looking for

OK clue...2 are French and one English [/color]

Oh Merde!

[dtaai-maai]

Caller, it really is Mrs Beeton, so presumably the two Frenchmen are chefs de cuisine?

[Big Boy]

When you have the Mrs Beeton information, the answer is quite easy using Google However, I won't spoil the fun for the clever ones amongst you

[dtaai-maai]

Go for it, BB - google will be how I get it!
Is no. 3 Massialot?

[Big Boy]

I wouldn't want to spoil people's fun - sorry

[Siani]

When you have the Mrs Beeton information, the answer is quite easy using Google However, I won't spoil the fun for the clever ones amongst you

BB The fun is to try to guess it without google if possible

Sometimes it is difficult but the clues can come later...yes yum was a clue.

[Siani]

Well done DM
The other are french but might be a bit hard to name...

Number 1
George Auguste Escoffier, bridged the 19th and 20th centuries with a modernization of Careme's elaborate cuisine by ingenious simplification of it. Escoffier lent his talents as a chef to open the Ritz and Carlton hotels with partner Cesar Ritz, and then went on to wow such illustrious passengers as Kaiser William II of Germany on the German liner Imperator. Besides being known for such famous treats at Peach Melba, created for Australian singer Nellie Melba in 1893, Escoffier penned numerous volumes on cooking and was largely instrumental in the betterment of conditions within commercial kitchens



Number 2
Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson) (12 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers.

Number 3
Antoine Careme..King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings. Antoine Careme went from being an abandoned child left at the door of a restrauteur in 18th century Paris, to become the father of "haute cuisine" - the high art of French cooking - in the early 19th century. Chef to then-world movers and shakers such as diplomat Talleyrand-Perigord, the future King George IV, Czar Alexander I, and the powerful banker James Rothschild, Careme is noted for his voluminous writings on cooking, including the famed L'Art de la Cuisine Francaise (The Art of French Cooking), a five-volume masterpiece on menu planning, table settings, hundreds of recipes, and a history of French cooking.

[Big Boy]

BB The fun is to try to guess it without google if possible .

Which I why I didn't give the answer. What I don't understand is why did you give the answer before everybody had finished?

[Siani]

BB The fun is to try to guess it without google if possible .

Which I why I didn't give the answer. What I don't understand is why did you give the answer before everybody had finished?

Well I on said as a bonus to name them The connection was spotted by DM...chefs. I thought that maybe naming them was a bit too hard.

Hopefully DM will set a new challenge

By the way BB I hope you will continue your Caption competion when you leave work and come to HH. Will your judges at work still help out with the results? We all enjoy it so much. sorry to go off topic

[Big Boy]

By the way BB I hope you will continue your Caption competion when you leave work and come to HH. Will your judges at work still help out with the results? We all enjoy it so much. sorry to go off topic [/color]

Yes, no worries. Modern communications makes this a very small world and it will be my way of keeping in touch after I've left. One of the judges has already taken early retirement a couple of months ago, and he looks forward to receiving my weekly e-mails.

[Siani]

Great BB

Well I only said as a bonus to name them The connection was spotted by DM...chefs. I thought that maybe naming them was a bit too hard.

Hopefully DM will set a new challenge

[dtaai-maai]

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Okay, here's one that might prove interesting...

Three men from different fields of expertise, different periods and different countries.
Who are they, and what do they have in common?

[Norseman]

No 3 is definitely Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Piece Prize, the inventor of dynamite and later the owner of the Swedish Bofors AB, weapons manufacture company.