Le Meilleur Ouvrier (Felix Urbain Dubois)

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"



Robert F. Kennedy

  

Veal Prince Orloff, Angels on Horseback, Service à la russe (serving meals in separate courses on individual plates), Savoy Cake with Oranges -- all inventions and innovations attributable to Félix Urbain Dubois (b. Trets 1818 - d. Nice 1901).


Influential chef, gifted multi-media artist, "out of the box" thinker, honest worker.


Watching Gasbags gassing on all day/all night cable tv (simultaneously tweeting their mediocre, irrelevant pronouncements to the farthest corners of an I-hope-not-too-hostile universe), I wish we had more people like meilleur ouvrier Dubois willing just to do the work and bring their gifts -- the best of themselves -- to their fellow Earthlings.  

Illustrations from Felix Urbain Dubois, Cuisine Artistique, 1870.