Word: tschumi
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Chef Tschumi...
Sirs: Have your operatives anything further to report on Buckingham Palace Chef Chummy'' Tschumi's threat to resign? (TIME, Sept. 19) If he has quit the royal kitchens he will not be the first to do so-and for the same reason. The great Careme, one of the most noted of French chefs, was hired during the reign of George IV, at a salary of 1,000 guineas a year. But he resigned after only a few weeks, complained that King George didn't appreciate his finest efforts, but kept asking for boiled beef...
...Chef Tschumi planned to retire last July, changed his mind, is still working at Buckingham Palace. So is his superior, Chief Chef Cedard...
Chummy, as members of the Royal family insist upon calling Chef Gabriel Tschumi, is Swiss. When his father, a professor, was killed in an accident, Chummy became apprenticed to the Royal kitchens, has been there 34 years. Discreet, he would say no more last week than "I want to resign...