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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Christian Albin, 'culinary Rip van Winkle,' dies By VERENA DOBNIK,Associated Press AP - Sunday, June 14 NEW YORK - Christian "Hitsch" Albin, who fed the world's luminaries for decades as executive chef of The Four Seasons _ a restaurant that invented the "power lunch" _ has died. He was 62. ADVERTISEMENT Albin died at New York University Medical Center on Saturday, five days after being diagnosed with cancer, the restaurant's owners said in a statement. The Swiss-born chef's hearty laughter filled the ritzy Manhattan restaurant's kitchen for 36 years, serving guests from Jacqueline Onassis and Elton John to President Clinton, Princess Diana and Martha Stewart. "He was our hero: the man we always turned to when we knew we had to achieve the impossible," said the statement released by 50-year-old restaurant's managing partners, Julian Niccolini and Alex von Bidder. The "impossible" at times meant wealthy, demanding guests "who would ask for everything you can possibly imagine!" Albin joked recently. "Like, an English muffin with an egg on top, for dinner." He sent a waiter out to buy muffins _ and the special request was served alongside fancier fare like filet of buffalo with truffle sauce. A bigger-than-life man, he put in 14-hour days at the restaurant off Park Avenue. With him in the kitchen, The Four Seasons won a James Beard Award, equivalent to a culinary Oscar. The chef had not been feeling right lately. He finally went to the doctor on Monday, when he was given his diagnosis. He lived in Palisades, north of New York City in Rockland County. Raised in a Swiss village near the town of Flims, he trained in Switzerland before moving to the United States in the early 1970s. The whole world entered Albin's Four Seasons kitchen, where the best raw materials arrived daily from faraway lands and seas. "Look at this salmon from Scotland!" he said with gusto one day just weeks ago, opening a refrigerator and pulling out the huge, gleaming fish that would be accompanied by a fine white wine _ which he sipped from a glass before returning to the stoves. Albin "has been our friend and our brother since we were all kids, three European immigrants who came to the U.S. at a very different time in the history of American restaurants," said Niccolini and von Bidder, natives of Italy and Switzerland, respectively. Like them, Albin arrived when New York was expanding the concept of fine dining from standard steak-and-lobster restaurants to food created by "a culinary Rip van Winkle, reawakening what was once too-familiar fare with subtle but surprisingly adventurous new flavors," New York Magazine once said of him. But fame never interested Albin. Instead, he enjoyed feeding hungry deliverymen and workers who came his way. "He was always an old-school chef _ a strong, compassionate manager who treated everyone fairly while demanding the best from his cooks," said Niccolini and von Bidder. In addition to his Four Seasons colleagues, Albin is survived by his wife Hani Albin, daughter Stephanie, son Christopher and granddaughters Nicole and Claudia. Funeral arrangements were pending. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: World Obama eyes tighter controls on banks, Wall StreetAP - Monday, June 15 Michelle Obama, girls get rare London palace tourAP - Monday, June 15 Mousavi seeks to overturn Iran election resultReuters - 1 hour 22 minutes ago PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care's victimsAP - Monday, June 15 Miss. governor tests 2012 GOP waters in Iowa, NHAP - Monday, June 15 Most Popular – World Viewed Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years: study Dumped mattress lands cash in trash in Israel Obama signs note for girl who played hooky to see him Paris bailiffs chase Saudi princess for unpaid bills Luanda is world's most expensive expat city: survey View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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