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Colette Gouvion & Arlette Sirot
Colette Gouvion embarked on a journalistic career in her 20s, working for 12 years for the Paris-based national news magazine L'Express. During her subsequent 15-year tenure with the Marie-Claire Group, she was the co-founder of the magazine 100 Idees. She has also done writing for television and authored a biography about Marguerite of Navarre. Since 1994, she has served as an author and co-author for the Paris publishing company Editions du Rouergue.
Arlette Sirot is a restaurant owner who "came to adore this profession chiefly by making soups a centerpiece of my menus," she writes in the introduction to Glorious Soups. "I have always been fond of good food, and I like to delight my friends with excellent meals."
Sirot counts herself among "those who appreciate the innovations of the great chefs... and delight in dipping into the vast reservoir of classic recipes.... In the end, I would be unable to know now what belongs to the core of my cuisine -- to distinguish between that which I unconsciously adopted from various chefs, what I used from the peasant repertoire, or what I really invented."
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