Pierre Franey was one of the best and best-known chefs of the 20th century, with a reach extending from the haute kitchens of New York’s Le Pavillon, arguably the greatest restaurant of its time, to ...

Pierre Franey has been many different things in his seven-plus decades: Fisherman, hunter, apprentice, chef, immigrant, soldier, executive, husband, father, newspaper columnist, raconteur, cookbook ...

Last year when the final installment of Pierre Franey’s “60-Minute Gourmet” appeared in The New York Times, I ripped out the column. During the 17 years that Franey’s weekly dispatch appeared in that ...

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When Pierre Franey’s “60-Minute Gourmet” column made its debut in The New York Times 25 years ago, an hour was considered quick cooking. Now an hour for food preparation is a luxury best reserved for ...

January’s first half commanded two punctuation points in time; the birth centenary of the fabled chef and chronicler of cuisine, Pierre Franey, this Wednesday, and the passing of Brian Urquhart, the ...

Image credit: wikipedia.comRecognizing New York Times columnist Pierre Franey (best known as the author of the long-running, popular 60-Minute Gourmet column), this dinner features five courses of ...

Jan. 13, 1921: Pierre Franey was born. The French chef of Le Pavillon restaurant in New York City authored cookbooks and collaborated with Craig Claiborne in the New York Times food column “60 Minute ...

Many a man groans and bears it when he comes home to find a TV dinner in the oven. Not Pierre Franey. The first time he found frozen dinners in his house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, “I was ...

January’s first half commanded two punctuation points in time; the birth centenary of the fabled chef and chronicler of cuisine, Pierre Franey, this Wednesday, and the passing of Brian Urquhart, the ...