Which French chef created Peach Melba in 1893?
Peach Melba Peach Melba Peach Melba (, pronounced ) is a dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. The dish was invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London, to honor the Australian soprano Nellie Melba. In 1892, operatic soprano Nellie Melba was performing in Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" at Covent Garden. The Duke of Orléans gave a dinner party to celebrate her triumph. For the occasion, Escoffier created a new dessert, and to display it, he used an ice sculpture of a swan, which is featured in the opera. The swan
The French Chef The French Chef The French Chef is a television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 2, 1963 to January 14, 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on American television. The show grew out of a special presentation Child gave on WGBH based on the book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" which she co-authored. "The French Chef" was produced from 1963 to 1973 by WGBH for National Educational Television (and later for PBS). Reruns continued on PBS until 1989, and were