{"id":3066,"date":"2011-05-10T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2011-05-04T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:07:44","slug":"portrait-night-510-auguste-escoffier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 5\/10 (Auguste Escoffier)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m still stuck on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3034\">&#8220;Famous Chefs Trading Cards&#8221; idea from last week<\/a>; Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is legendary chef, father of modern French cuisine, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auguste_Escoffier\" target=\"_blank\">Auguste Escoffier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3067\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3067\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,762\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"escoffier\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier-295x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3067\" title=\"escoffier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3068\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"277,412\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3068\" title=\"ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ESCOFFIER-Head-Shot1.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>I did an initial drawing of Escoffier that I later decided was too literal for my tastes&#8211;especially if it was going to be in some sort of card set, minicomic, or poster with the Grant Achatz image. For what it&#8217;s worth, here it is undoctored, right out of my sketchbook:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3069\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"732,690\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"escoffier_orig\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig-300x282.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3069\" title=\"escoffier_orig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffier_orig.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m still stuck on this &#8220;Famous Chefs Trading Cards&#8221; idea from last week; Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is legendary chef, father of modern French cuisine, Auguste Escoffier: I did an initial drawing of Escoffier that I later decided was too literal for my tastes&#8211;especially if it was going to be in some sort of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3066\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Ns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}