In January, 1842, a poor fellow was taken before the authorities of
Paris for begging in the streets. He had studied the _science_ of
cookery under the celebrated Carême, and was the inventor of the
delicious _Saumon truffé à la broche_. He was in the last garb of want,
and attributed his poverty to the decline of cookery from a science to a
low art! It has been observed that cooks, in nine cases out of ten,
after ministering to the luxury of the opulent, creep into holes and
corners, and pass neglected out of the world.
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