20 Facts About Joseph Favre

Joseph Favre founded and wrote for various left-wing journals and a magazine for chefs, and sponsored cooking competitions and exhibitions and launched a chefs' trade union.

Joseph Favre would come to favour a more moderate socialism and, like other members of the IWA in Switzerland, eventually rejected anarchism, though he remained active in radical politics.

Joseph Favre was born on 17 February 1849 in Vex, in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Joseph Favre was the illegitimate child of Victor Leblanc, a Catholic priest, and Madeleine Quinodox.

Joseph Favre was orphaned as a young child and only received primary education.

Joseph Favre worked during the next two years at the Taverne Anglaise in Paris, at the Royal Hotel, and the Hamburg Restaurant in London, and, after returning to Paris, at the Hotel de Bade, the Cafe de la Paix, and then the Cafe Riche under the direction of Louis Bignon.

Joseph Favre enlisted in Giuseppe Garibaldi's army of the Vosges.

Joseph Favre joined the International Workingmen's Association.

The room filled with the smoke of Turkish tobacco and Joseph Favre had to open the windows in cold weather.

In February 1877, Joseph Favre played an active role in the second congress of the Northern Italian section of the International Workingmen's Association, where he spoke several times in favor of participating in parliamentary elections.

Joseph Favre, like other great chefs of this period, was a follower of Antonin Careme and accepted his culinary theories concerning.

From 1873 to 1879, Joseph Favre worked in hotels and restaurants in Lausanne, Clarens, Fribourg, Lugano, Basel, Bex, and Rigi Kulm.

Joseph Favre spent eight months in Kassel with Count Botho zu Eulenburg, governor of Hesse, before finally returning to Paris.

Joseph Favre was the first to suggest the idea of culinary exhibitions and competitions, which would showcase the professional and artistic skills of chefs and cooks.

In 1879, Joseph Favre founded the, which grew to 80 sections around the world.

Joseph Favre continued to use the name of the Paris chapter of the despite legal action.

Joseph Favre's colleagues are said to have been upset that he sponsored cooking classes for the public and free lectures, since they thought he was revealing professional secrets.

Joseph Favre retired to Boulogne-sur-Seine and spent the last years of his life preparing his great dictionary of cooking, whose first articles had appeared in.

At an 1889 congress, Joseph Favre recommended that young girls be given instruction in preparing foods for infants, adults, those in their declining years, and the old.

Joseph Favre had almost completed a revision of his dictionary.