THE ITALIAN PRINCE'S COOK.
Brillat Savarin tells a story, illustrative of the estimation in which cooks were held by the bons vivants of the past An Itilian prince, who had a Sicilian cook (the cooks of Sicily have been famous from time immemorial) was once travelling to his provincial estates, taking with him his entire batterie de cuisine and his Sicilian cook, At a point where the narrow path along the precipice turned the angle of a projecting rock, the prince, at the head of his long cavalcade, heard a shriek and the splash of a body falling into the torrent far below. With a face white with horrow he pulled up, and looking | back, exclaimed :
'•The cook! the cook! merciful heavns, the cook ? "
"No, your Excellency." cried a voice from the rear, "it is Don Pros-
demo."
The prince heaved a sigh of intense relief.
Ah ! only the chaplain ! " he said ? 'heaven be thanked."
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 9 June 1882, Page 2
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155THE ITALIAN PRINCE'S COOK. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1098, 9 June 1882, Page 2
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