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Article: The men in the white coats Ask the splendid table
- Article from:
- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2006
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Dear Lynne:How did the chef's uniform come to be? I mean the white coat, that tall hat with pleats that is so odd and the black-and-white pants. These strike me as being the classic costume. Is there a story here? - Too Much Time on My Hands in Columbus
Dear Too Much Time: There is a story here, but one with a lot of variations and little solid proof.
I have heard of origins with royal cooks in Assyria before Christ and Greek Orthodox monasteries, but I have a suspicion that what you describe started in France. You see illustrations of the white double-breasted jacket in 19th-century illustrations. One source says that Antonin Careme, a famous and powerful chef of the time, demanded white ...
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