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Carol Brock (1923 – 2020), food writer who founded Les Dames d’ Escoffier

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Carol Brock was a food writer who founded Les Dames d’ Escoffier, a professional organization for women in the culinary world.Brock became part of the culinary industry in the 1940s as a young writer for Good Housekeeping magazine.

As she wrote there for 23 years, then moved on to Parents magazine and the New York Daily News, Brock discovered that the food and beverage industry was largely a boys’ club, particularly in fine dining groups like the storied Les Amis d’Escoffier Society.

Brock wanted to help women break what she called the “Pyrex ceiling” and rise in the culinary world, so she founded Les Dames d’Escoffier in 1973.

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