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Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu, international group of hospitality management and cooking schools teaching French cuisine


Fiona Hamilton-Fairley

After completing a Cordon Bleu course she founded and managed her own catering company, Corporate Catering Company, in Berlin and London from 1981-1987.

Gilli Davies

Gilli Davies is a Cordon Bleu cook from Wales who has been involved with food, food journalism and broadcasting since about 1975.

Katharine Pooley

She has attended several prestigious cookery courses, namely Cordon Bleu and Prue Leith.

Nathalie Dupree

In the late 1960s Nathalie and her first husband, David Dupree, lived in London, where Nathalie attended the Cordon Bleu cooking school, earning an advanced certificate.

Robert Six

Its upper-deck first class lounge won awards worldwide for the most refined cabin interior among all airlines, as did meal services developed by Continental's Cordon Bleu-trained executive chefs.


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André J. Cointreau

André J. Cointreau is the president and CEO of l’Ecole de Cuisine et de Pâtisserie Le Cordon Bleu, better known as Le Cordon Bleu.

Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts – Dallas

The history of the name, Le Cordon Bleu dates back to the 16th century where King Henry III awarded members of the Order of the Holy Spirit a medallion that was suspended from a Blue Ribbon…or Le Cordon Bleu.

Madame Brassart

Shortly after the film's release, Nina Zagat, who also spent time at Le Cordon Bleu under Brassart, and her husband responded to the film's portrayal with an article comparing Brassart and Child, whom they both knew personally and stating that Brassart was more sympathetic in real life.