SC - OT: Weird Dream
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Sat Jan 27 09:22:59 PST 2001
As a guess, it is being used as English households used the terms "steward"
and "marshal," to denote a senior official of specified authority and
duties. The "steward of the kitchen" often had menu planning and accounting
responsibilities which the head cook did not.
Bear
> One of the dictionaries interprets "écuyer de cuisine" (which
> I have been translating literally as "squire of the kitchen")
> as "maistre cuisinier", meaning "master cook".
>
> Thorvald Grimsson / James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net> (PGP user)
>
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