Word: chef
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Edinburgh court circles became so enamored of haute cuisine that a serious food shortage developed. The rage persisted under James' daughter and successor, Mary Queen of Scots. Marmalade is said to have been invented by the royal chef as a pick-me-up when Mary came down with a fever after a cold night tryst with her lover; the orangey concoction was named Marie malade. (A more prosaic version traces marmalade to marmelo, the Portuguese word for quince, the original ingredient.) Leg of mutton is still known by its French name, gigot, though it is pronounced "jiggott." A superb...
Madeleine Peter interviewed 28 women owner-chefs, all of whom parted with special recipes. Marthe Faure, who owns the 72-year-old Auberge Saint-Quentinoise just outside Paris, contributed veal kidneys du prince, which is one of the few French dishes to employ bourbon whisky; it also won her the coveted Grand Prix of the Poêle d'Or in 1968. Though Peter says grandly in her preface that "we are liberated from the potato, which modern industrialization has made tasteless," her chefs offer five tasty dishes made with the proscribed pomme. An intriguing zucchini soufflé mistral...
...Since I was 11 years old I worked in restaurants and hotels," he says, "first in Jamaica and then here. I start in an American restaurant as a boilerman, and I watch and I learn until I make it to assistant chef, I don't know anything else...
...small menu makes for a tidy kitchen. One locker holds ground beef, another buns. And one chef, smiling, toothless Lester, is in charge of chili. "They only allow us to make it one way," Lester said as he stirred his simmering pots...
Donovan was an eclectic recruiter; among the people he brought into the OSS were Conservative Columnist Stewart Alsop, Marxist Political Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and Chef Julia Child, who tended intelligence files at the OSS office in Chongqing (Chungking). So many OSS people were listed in the Social Register that critics complained that the initials stood for "Oh So Social...