Word: scullions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English cook came to Manhattan last week in the imperial suite of the Berengaria, proceeding thence to the Ritz. Dazzled, newsgatherers hailed Mrs. Rosa Lewis as the most exalted onetime scullion who ever lived, remembering that she and the late Edward VII were once close as two quails on a spit. Callow, the newsgatherers betrayed an ignorance of great scullions, cooks, laundresses...
Charged with murder there was brought before the Paris Court of Assize last week M. Berthelin, one of the greatest of French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great...
While she sings, this humdrum scullion...
...cafeteria "hath had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar." As a proof, not much after 1636 one finds that "Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food...