[Sca-cooks] Feastocrate vs. Head Cook

[Terry Decker]

Chef (as for chef de cuisine) doesn't seem to enter English until the 19th
Century, but chef d'oeuvre was used by Walpole in the late 18th Century.

A number of similar words meaning chief and chafe do appear before the 17th
Century.

Bear

>Noble Cousins!
>
>Greetings from Solveig! Why not simply use chef? Chef appears to be
>etymologically related to chief and capt = head. The Chef is the leader
>of cooks. I am currious as to when chef actually came into use. I
>agree that it may be quite recent and is only really descriptive in
>the context of restaurant culture which is itself quite recent.
>
>Autocrat (as opposed to its offspring) is a real word and is descriptive
>of the function. In medieval times, this job might be performed by a
>head butler of some sort.
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> Your Humble Servant
> Solveig Throndardottir
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