Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — SURE TO BE MISSED. [ARTICLE]

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A Famous Cssk’s Lament on ths Death es Hit Royal Master. The most successful book that wgs published by William Harrison Ainsworth during his first year of business. says Mr. 8. M. Ellis in his biography of the English author and publisher. was a cookbook. It was “The French Cook," by Lonls Eustacbe Ude. “the Gil Bias of the kitchen.” This unique study of the culinary art brought in a handsome sum to the astute young publisher who had purchased tbe copyright, and the book was in tbe hands of every gourmet in London. Ude bad been chef of Louis XVI., of Mme. Leticia Bonaparte and then of the Earl of Sefton. at a salary of 300 guineas a year. At another time be presided over the-cullnnry department of the Crock fords, but his favorite master was Frederick, duke of York. When the royal gormand died his bereaved chef pathetically ejaculated: “Ah, mon pauvre due. how much you will miss me. wherever you are gone to. r ’