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Died. Louis Felix ("Monsieur Louis") Diat, 72, French-born artist of the kitchen, longtime (1910-51) chef at Manhattan's old Ritz-Carlton Hotel, regarded by gourmets as one of the world's great chefs, creator of Vichyssoise; in Manhattan...
Joseph de Borse-Day, 49, was a chef at The Bell in the fall of 1955 when he suddenly began losing weight-14 Ibs. in one week, followed by a serious hemorrhage. Surgeons removed a cancer-ridden right lung and several cancerous glands along his spine. De Borse's remaining lung developed bronchopleural fistulas, and the hospital staff rated his chance of recovery at just about zero...
...where the men guzzle fruit juices, mineral water and beer to compensate for sweat (about 2½ gal. per man per day) lost at work. Elaborate meals worthy of a two-star Burgundy restaurant are spread before them. "If they eat only a third of this," says the anxious chef, "they'll get enough calories...
Coke, a barrister's son. caught the attention of his fellow lawyers when he was still an Inner Temple student, by framing a charge in Latin against the Temple's chef for bad cooking. He left the Temple gates to start practicing-according tp legend with only "a horse, a rapier, ten pounds, a ring set with three rose diamonds and the motto (O Prepare.' " His first client was a parson who had been served with a writ of slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated...
...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...