Summary
About a decade ago, when I delivered my very first after-dinner speech, I mistakenly paid compliments to the cook. There was some nervous shuffling of feet under the top table and I was hastily obliged to translate my remarks into French. It was the chef I wished to thank, of course.
The word chef, along with a host of other culinary terms, arrived from France after the Norman Conquest to distinguish between what the upperclasses ate (pork, mutton, beef, venison) from what the Anglo-Saxons produced for their table (pig, sheep, cow, deer).See the full content of this document
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There's Tyranny at My Table ; Chris Upton
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