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Robert Carrier OBE (born Robert McMahon on November 10, 1923 – died June 27, 2006 in France) was an American chef, restaurateur and cookery writer.
Biography
Born Robert McMahon, with Irish and French descent, he adopted the French surname of his grandmother, with whom he often stayed in upstate New York. She first taught him to cook, making biscuits and butter-frying fish caught in a nearby stream.
Post WW2
Carrier served in the United States Army during World War Two, where he choose to remain in Paris after the cessation of hostilities. He initially worked for a US forces radio station, and then edited a theatrical magazine. After the magazine was shut down in 1949 he moved to St Tropez to work in a friends restaurant, before moving to Rome, Italy to improve his cookery repertoire.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). and went to live in France and Morocco.
On January 19, 1983, Carrier was the subject of the United Kingdom television show This Is Your Life.
Carrier lived in Marrakesh for several months of each year and used his Moroccan experiences as the basis for another cookbook in 1987.
He lived in and died in Provence where he spent his retirement painting pictures.
Television
- c1975 Carrier's Kitchen
- 1980 Food, Wine & Friends
- 1994 The Gourmet Vegetarian
- 1996 Carrier's Caribbean, BBC2 12-part series
Bibliography
- Robert Carrier, The Robert Carrier Cookbook, (London: Nelson, 1965)
- Robert Carrier, The Connoisseur's Cookbook, (London: Random House, c 1965)
- Robert Carrier, Great Dishes of the World, (London: Sphere, 1967) ISBN 0-7221-2357-4
- Robert Carrier, Cooking for you, (London: Hamlyn, 1973) ISBN 0-600-37541-2
- Robert Carrier, The Robert Carrier Cookery Course, (London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1974) ISBN 0-491-01192-X
- Robert Carrier, Great Desserts and Pastries, (London: Hamlyn, 1978) ISBN 0-600-32014-6
- Robert Carrier, Food, Wine & Friends, (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980) ISBN 0-283-98555-0
- Robert Carrier (ed.), Robert Carrier's Kitchen, (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1981-1983) magazine partwork
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Entertaining, (1982)
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Quick Cook, (London: Hamlyn, 1984) ISBN 0-600-32232-7
- Robert Carrier, Cooking With Carrier , (London: Galahd Books, 1984) ISBN 0-89479-059-5
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Kitchen – Making the most of Lamb & Pork, (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1985) ISBN 0-86307-264-X
- Robert Carrier, A Taste of Morocco, (London: Crown Publishing, 1987) ISBN 0-517-56559-5
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Menu Planner, (London: Little Brown, 1988) ISBN 0-316-12977-1
- Robert Carrier, Feasts of Provence, (London: Rizzoli International Publications, 1993) ISBN 0-8478-1661-3
- Robert Carrier, The Best of Robert Carrier, (London: Bloomsbury, 1994) ISBN 0-7475-1980-3
- Robert Carrier, The Gourmet Vegetarian, (London: Boxtree, 1994) ISBN 1-85283-952-X
- Robert Carrier, Carrier's Kitchen, (London: Boxtree, 1995) ISBN 0-7522-1032-7
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Cookery Cards: Classic Carrier, (London: Boxtree, 1995) ISBN 0-7522-1002-5
- Robert Carrier, Robert Carrier's Cookery Cards: Carrier Entertains, (London: Boxtree, 1995) ISBN 0-7522-1076-9
- Robert Carrier, A Million Family Menus, (London: World Publications, 1996) ISBN 1-57215-194-3
- Robert Carrier, Great Dishes of Spain, (London: Boxtree, 1999) ISBN 0-7522-2492-1
Other sources
- 'Flashback', Daily Telegraph magazine, March 26, 2005, p. 98
- BBC "US TV Chef Carrier dies aged 82" 27 June 2006
- {[citeweb|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article680172.ece%7Ctitle=Robert carrier|publisher=The Times|date=2006-06-28|accessdate=2008-05-20}}