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Show To the artist the occasion: "These chefs!" said one multimillionaire to another. "Mine, you know, oraws & thousand a month. He used to be at the Cafe Royal. Escoffier recommended recom-mended him. But his independence! One night I gave, just to show off, a dinner of two hundred covers. The afternoon of the dinner I found him motoring in the park in a taxicab with two French dancing girls. Of course, I hailed him and took him to task. 'Oh,' said he, 'a dinner of that sort I always leave to my assistants. With such masses of food it is impossible to introduce delicate, subtle, or original origi-nal cooking. Now, little girls, shall we drive on?' " |