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diff --git a/famous cooks.txt b/famous cooks.txt deleted file mode 100755 index 4764b02..0000000 --- a/famous cooks.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -Famous cooks - -Wikipedia: François Vatel (1631, Paris – April 24, 1671) was a "Maître d'hôtel" (translates as "Master of the House"), famous for creating Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by Louis, the great Condé in April 1671 at the Château de Chantilly; hence the name crème Chantilly. - -At this same banquet, Vatel, the consummate perfectionist, was supposedly so distraught about the lateness of the fish—the banquet was to be held on a Friday—and about other mishaps that he committed suicide by running himself through with a sword. According to some versions of the story, his body was discovered by an aide who came to tell him of the arrival of the fish. His death was treated as a national tragedy.[1]
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