The Inner Man Author:Daniel O'Connell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III An INCIDENT OP THE CUISINE—THE COOK'S BELIEF IN THE EFFICACY OF HtS ART —The Menu Cooked Under Trying Circumstances.—The Fate Of A Tom Cat... more ».—An Insult ToIfrance Avenged. HE FOLLOWING SKETCH, illustrative of the pride of the chef in his art is well adapted to the purposes of this volume : "The Franco-German War was just over when I commenced my medical studies in Paris. I lived in the Rue de 1'Ancienne Comedie, which, as you know perfectly well, is just at the back of the Odeon Theater, in the heart of Quartier L,atin —I and Mr. Magloire. We both were -students,—I of medicine, he of the culinary art. Magloire was an enthusiast; so was I. I believe each of us loved his own particular art, as a true artist should, above everything else. Magloire had begun life as a mar- miton, he rose to be a journeyman; he became a sous-chef; and then he came to Paris to carry out the ambition of his life. He came to Paris to study under the great Capilotade— Capilotade, the cook of cooks, the Napoleon of the culinary art. He was ambitious, you see, this M. Magloire, my fellow lodger. 'The day will come,' he would say to me, 'when my talent will be recognized. The day will come—ah, and you will live to see it, my friend—when every fashionable dish will be accommodated a la Magloire—soup a la Magloire, entrees, pastry, all a la Magloire. The bills of fare of the fashionable restaurants will bristle with plats a la Magloire. Discreet waiters, on being consulted by their habitual customers, the great ban vivants will suggest that the latest style-is a la Magloire; and the man who intends to dine well will order the artistic masterpiece of his proposed dinner to be confectioned a la Magloire, and he will never, never, never repent this decision. The receipts for those inestim...« less