But delightful, yes. Especially if you maintain a laissez-faire attitude toward facts, even while watching a show based on a historical figure. Carême highlights the banquet halls and boudoirs conquered by Marie-Antoine Carême, frequently cited as one of the founders of haute cuisine, as well as “the first celebrity chef.” (That moniker is in the title of Ian Kelly’s 2004 nonfiction book Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef, upon which this series is nominally based.)
It’s not 10 seconds into Carême and a devilish French chef is thrusting a cream-topped finger into a cooing mademoiselle’s mouth. There’s not a lot about this series that’s subtle.
But delightful, yes. Especially if you maintain a laissez-faire attitude toward facts, even while watching a show based on a historical figure. Carême highlights the banquet halls and boudoirs conquered by Marie-Antoine Carême, frequently cited as one of the founders of haute cuisine, as well as “the first celebrity chef.” (That moniker is in the title of Ian Kelly’s 2004 nonfiction book Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the F
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