Dione lucas biography of nancy
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Dione lucas biography of nancy
Dione Lucas
English chef
Dione Lucas (pronounced dee-OH-nee; born Dione Wilson; 10 October 1909 – 18 December 1971)[1] was an English chef,[2] and the first female graduate of Le Cordon Bleu.
Her father was the architect, jeweller and designer Henry Wilson, and her sister was the violinist Orrea Pernel (1906–1993).[3] She married another architect, Colin Lucas (1906–1984).[4]
Life
Dione Lucas was fundamental in establishing an extension of the famous Paris culinary school in London in the 1930s.
She married the architect Colin Lucas. on 9 April 1930.[5] In 1931 she and Rosemary Hume (with whom she has trained in Paris), set up a cookery school in Sloane Street, London, the interior of which was designed by Colin Lucas.[5] They had a flat in Chelsea and they would reputedly serve their students' creations to passing trade at chairs and tables on the pavement.
Lucas is thought to have helped Hume create her first