Show is C 0 0 K 1 FOR A KING M FRENCHMAN A GE nills IN HIS ART edward VII vil pays 10 salary year ly y to monarch of royal kitchen who prepares meals at buck ingham palace london one of the privileges which the sovereign is still allowed to retain in democratic england Is the appointment of his own chef V hen there Is a change of ministry king ring edward at the dictation of the prime minister has to take on a new lord chamberlain who is nominally the boss of the upstairs department of the royal household and a new ford steward who is supposed to have su preme control of the culinary depart ment but the real monarch of the palace kitchen the chief cook as he is officially styled in good old anglo saxon is not subject to the tudes audes of politics 1 whatever party is in power he continues to hold his job at his majesty s pleasure which Is just as long as he contrives to satisfy bis his majesty s highly cultivated epicurean tastes this Is a matter which really affects the king more closely than a change of administration for whether the lib brals or the conservatives are in a ma bority he can exercise very little con eon arol over the government the august functionary who minis mints to the roal al appetite is M juste a native of the land of good cooks and something over 40 years of age he gets 10 a year which is 1 more than is paid the first sea lord of the admiralty the famous sir fisher who practically runs the british navy M has an easy billet lie ile is paid his big salary not so much for nhat hat he actually does as for knowing tow bow to do it so great a culinary artist Is not ex pecked to produce three masterpieces in one day with the breakfast of the king which is always a modest meal lie he does not concern himself he ile is not required to sleep under his mas ter s roof like most of the royal me nials but lives in a private residence a short distance from buckingham pal ace he ile always drives to the palace arriving there shortly after 11 0 clock in his own private office a sunny apartment adjoining the kitchen and oNer overlooking looking lawns he receives the luncheon carte drawn up by lord par guhar the master of the king kings s house hold bold and begins his days work the office of the lord steward who Is nominally at the head of tha the gastro comic department Is i radically a sinecure it is is at present filled by lord hawkesbury who pockets 10 a year for drawing his salary and looking imposing on state occasions when his attend k s eui ed it if M were ft ere capable of envy le he might occasionally occasion illy envy tha lore s s eward dut but he has declared tha he would not be happy it he were nol able to practice his art ana so fai far as fame is concerned as the jinga ing chef he enjoys a tar far greater meas ire of it than is bestowed on any figure head functionary besides abundance of leisure is allowed him in which t tc C cultivate his own pet hobbies or seek gastronomic inspiration after lunch eon Is served he Is free to do what he pleases until six clock when prepa rations for the preat beitt of hia his do main dinner begin at his command tor for this work are four master cooks and a retinue 01 ol well trained attendants all clad in im maculate linen perfect discipline prevails among them clockwork reg M JUSTE king edwards edward s french chef g clarity Is 1 the rule each dish Is bt gun and finished within a minute ol 01 the appointed time few words are spoken the kings kitchen contains some thing like 10 worth ot of utensils there are no less than pots ana pans most of them of copper and five scourers are solely employed to keep keer them brightly burnished the e are 4 knives 3 forks and as many sa s1 cons of various sizes used for cook coo ing and kitchen purposes for the service of the royal table there are 8 forks and spoons of massive sll sil vr yer like the king himself M Is a tactful man he ile knows how to please the women folk and the man who does that Is sure to be popular he ile has badly challenged the opinion entertained by most exalted chefs that women are incapable of master ing the higher mysteries of the culin ary art I 1 e encourages es women cooks he employs several of them at buck ingli ant palace he ile has decia decla ed that there are at least half a dozen women cooks in london aho vho ho are capable of 0 preparing a dinner ht fit for the king |