Misplaced Pages

Andrea Jourdan

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Canadian chef, ghost writer, and culinary author
Andrea Jourdan
Andrea Jourdan in 2019
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Chef, author

Andrea Jourdan (born 1956) is a Canadian chef, ghost writer and a culinary author with over 100 published cookbooks.

Early life

Andrea Jourdan was born in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada. She studied political science and French literature.

Career

After several years in France during which she encountered chefs Joël Robuchon and Bernard Loiseau, Andrea and her husband, American film director Philip Jourdan, opened their first restaurant Chez toi chez moi in Los Angeles. A second restaurant was opened in Montreal. Her love for European cuisine sees her return to Europe, more specifically in Italy, where she hosted the TV series Mangia! Mangia! created for the American market and which aired from 1996 to 1998. She then wrote and self-published her first cookbook in English, The Extra Virgin Olive Oil of Lucca which provides several recipes with the product and details numerous olive oil producers of Lucca in Tuscany.

In 2001, Andrea Jourdan opened a gourmet grocery store in Montreal called Les Petits Plaisirs d'Andrea and closed it due to unfortunate circumstances. Along with TV host and actress Francine Ruel, she participated for 2 seasons (2002-2004) on the summer TV series "L'été c'est péché" (summer is a sin), where several local celebrities collaborated daily discussing aspects of each deadly sin. For author Chrystine Brouillet, chef Ian Perreault and Andrea Jourdan, the theme was gluttony .

In 2011, Andrea Jourdan published her first cookbook in French, Spoom, Desserts envoûtants which won in 2012 the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Photography of cookbooks published in French Canada. Followed two best-selling titles on tartares, carpaccios and pies: Tartares et Carpaccios and Tartes en folie.

Since 2013, her Complètement cookbook series has been published by Éditions de l'Homme and titles are e-published in English under the name Absolutely . The concept of each title is to propose 30 original recipes around a single subject. Two of her cookbooks have won the coveted Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2015: Recevoir toute l'année avec Andrea (Best Entertaining cookbook - French Canada) and Le garde-manger d'Andrea (Best Easy Recipes cookbook - French Canada). Andrea Jourdan is also a weekly columnist to the "Food" section (Saveurs) in the newspaper Journal de Montréal After closing the first gourmet shop Les Petits Plaisirs d'Andrea on Laurier Street, Andrea opened on March 9, 2016, a new gourmet location, Andrea Jourdan La Boutique in Jean-Talon Market, where she shares a variety of original food products imported from all over the world as well as her own unique culinary creations, amongst which her infamous FBV (fraise-basilic-vodka or strawberry basil vodka jam).

Publications

As of 2018, Jourdan has written over 100 cookbooks. She has ghostwritten many cookbooks for several Canadian chefs. See list of publications below.

Translations

Collaborations

References

  1. ^ Journal Le Soleil de Québec (2013). "Une saison dans la vie d'Andrea Jourdan" (in French) (published 25 May 2013). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. ^ Maudits francais (2018). "Andrea Jourdan, une chef qui met le raffinement en petits pots" (in French) (published 19 November 2018). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  3. ^ Journal de Montréal (2014). "La cuisine pratique d'Andrea Jourdan" (published 29 May 2014). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  4. ^ Pat White (2016). "Andrea Jourdan : rendre le meilleur accessible" (in French) (published 11 March 2016). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  5. Voir (2011). "Desserts effervescents et originaux" (in French) (published 1 December 2011). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  6. Chambly Express (2013). "Deux ouvrages des Éditions Transcontinental finalistes à la compétition " Best in the World " des Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012" (in French) (published 1 February 2013). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  7. Voir (2012). "Tartares & Carpaccios: un été tout cru" (in French) (published 7 June 2012). Retrieved 25 June 2019..
  8. "Andrea Jourdan". Les Éditions de l'Homme (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  9. Myreille Simard (25 April 2013). "Des recettes complètement irrésistibles.. à prix mini!". Huffington Post (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  10. Gourmand Awards (2015). "Winners by countries - Gourmand Awards 2015". Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  11. Journal de Montréal (2013). "Andrea Jourdan au Journal de Montréal". Retrieved 25 June 2019..
  12. Journal de Québec (2016). "Andrea Jourdan ouvre une boutique gourmande" (in French) (published 9 March 2016). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
Categories: