Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — Cooks Who Earn $10,000 a Year. [ARTICLE]

Cooks Who Earn $10,000 a Year.

There is a celebrated cook in London about whom it is said that he makes an income of over SIO,OOO a year. He is attached to no house, but in his own brougham sets out toward evening for the house of some rich man who is going to give a dinner at which every dish must be above criticism. Here he alights, and, making for the kitchen, goes through the process of tasting all the soups, sauces and made dishes—advising when his palate suggests a little more salt here, a pineh of herbs there, a dash of sugar in this entree, a suspicion of onion in that salmis, etc. This does, he pockets his fee of $25 and drives on to the next dinner-giving patron who has biden him to his feast in this strange fashion. His nightly list comprises many houses all through the London season.