Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Studiously English in other respects, King George nonetheless keeps a French chef, famed Henri Cedard. Never to English but occasionally to French correspondents, M. Cedard remarks upon Edward of Wales's curious lack of discrimination in matters of food and Queen Mary's downright stinginess.* Smart and suave, the royal chef knows perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army...
...first prize recipe, wherever honest Sergeant Brown got it, was purely French or it would scarcely have won at the hands of Chef Cedard. The distinction: an English soup starts with water into which things are thrown; a French soup starts with ingredients so prepared as to develop and conserve their flavor, water being added to the minimum extent necessary...
Dispatches from Paris, with ballots arriving from Africa, Australia and such remote South American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...
...newshawks Chef Charpentier told a woeful story. Two years ago agents...
...them into a basement room, he told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move them farther away; the cars would soon be there. Besides the Tsar, the Tsaritsa, the Tsarevich and the four Grand Duchesses, there were a doctor, a valet, a chef and a parlormaid (holding a pillow that contained the Imperial jewels...