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THE SUBTITLE TO THIS CHAPTER, Immortal I pray, was written by Fernand Point, chef proprietor of La Pyramide, one of the great restaurants of the twentieth century. A man of extraordinary generosity, he trained a generation of the chefs who would transform French cuisine. He was not only a gifted cook and chef, but an observant and thoughtful man, as his cookbookcum-memoir, Ma Gastronomie, clearly shows.

“The duty of a good cuisinier is to transmit to the generations who will replace him, everything he has learned and experienced.”

“Success is the sum of a lot of little things done correctly.”

“Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.”