Last year I started cooking lessons with a legendary food writer and cookbook author. My kitchen will never be the same. Simple French Food by Richard Olney, published in 1974, is a game changer ...

Richard Olney was an American living in France whose cookbooks, notably 1970’s “The French Menu Cookbook” and 1974’s “Simple French Food,” would inspire the birth of what is now called ...

Richard Olney, who died last week at his home in the Provencal town of Soulis-Toucas, had an unparalleled view of French food and wine.An Iowa-born painter who did his most memorable work with ...

And long ago, to learn how to be a better cook, I went back to basics. To Richard Olney’s The French Menu Cookbook. And the section titled Aromatics, on Pages 49 to 63.

Richard Olney, Chez Panisse mentor and legendary cookbook author, ... The Good Cook series is out of print, but you can easily find it for sale at used-book stores and on the Internet.

Olney’s work as chief consultant for “The Good Cook,” a Time-Life cookbook series, exposed countless cooks, both amateur and professional, to his cooking concepts in the late 1970s and early ...

Richard Olney was an American living in France ... and focus greater attention on the interplay of wine and food.Olney’s work as chief consultant for “The Good Cook,” a Time-Life ...