Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — The Original Salad-Maker. [ARTICLE]

The Original Salad-Maker.

The Marquis d’ Abegnac, one bf the most distinguished of the' French emigres, was really the founder of the English salad. He did not consider, ho dishonored his crest by-becoming a salad-maker, and he was called from one house to another, known under the name of the “fashionable salad-maker,” and received 825 for concocting his salad. In order to sitisfv all liis eusand keep a servant, who followed him with a mahogany box containing all the requisites. His Gascon geniiis .made many rare inventions in his singular calling, and no cook in London or Pa is lias ever surpassed him in the preparation of delicious endive, savory lettuce, or stimulating cresses. When the Bourbons returned to France he went j back with them, having acquired ; $25,000.