Languidly the blonde at the next table cast her eye down the menu In four days she had tried everything from caviar to crumpets. The ste ard bowed gravely in response to her latest whim. For a moment as he walked away I noticed the purring of the engines and the slight metier of the ship. In four days we had grown as used to these things as ti the service which would bring al most anything at a moment's notice But how did it all happen?
Even the solving of a mystery like that wa: part of the service. I put my ques-Won to the inquiry steward, and was led past a door marked "Private, and found myself in another world.
Kings of the Kitchen In half an hour I had seen the treasure-houses where the slices o: the Orient and the delicacies of Eu. rope wait until the instant when a summons comes. In the same time i had met the specialists—twelve men, each of whom is a master of some particular branch of the art of cooking. Each is a chef in his own right.
One specializes in his preparation o! fish, another in soups, a third in sauces, a fourth in joints. A fat jovial man is king of the bakehouse He turns out over twenty different varieties of bread, biscuits, and scones a day. In a little pantry full of biscuit-tins and preserves a solemn. white-overalled figure prepares Savouries for the cocktail bar: caviar rounds, prawns in mayen noise, cheese fingers, A whole army of assistants toil in the kitchens below deck, bent over the long central A Wonderful Blind Girl s und open grills.
Queen Mary receiving from Miss Ruth Hitchcock (nearest the camera), the blind student who gained a double first in the Cambridge Theological Tripos, a purse with students" contributions to the cost of the new Fawcett Building at Newnham College, Cambridge.
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