Édouard de Pomiane

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski (20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964), was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer. His parents emigrated from Congress Poland in 1863 after the January Uprising, changed their name from ''Pozerski'' to ''de Pomiane'', and became French citizens.

De Pomiane worked as a physician at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he gave Félix d'Herelle a place to work on bacteriophages.

His best known works that have been translated into English are ''Cooking in Ten Minutes'' and ''Cooking with Pomiane''. His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness (he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you—the reader—what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine. He travelled widely and quite a few of his recipes are from abroad. His recipes often take pains to demystify cooking by explaining the chemical processes at work.

He was a founding member of the Académie des Gastronomes in 1928, with the high rank of chair no. 5 Louis Pasteur. 1940 was the age of retirement from the Pasteur Institute, but he continued his work in a small laboratory made for him in the attic. His teaching at the Scientific Institute of Food Hygiene ended in 1943. Provided by Wikipedia