rotisseur

Three days later I went over to the same hospitable grill-room for a chop, and told the gifted grill-cook (the French, in former centuries, had a proverb, "Anyone may learn to be a cook, but one must be born a 'rotisseur'") of the admiration he had excited in the Emperor William's friend.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

His wife would not go away until she had paid all their debts; he owed to his rotisseur alone 10,000 livres.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

His wife would not go away until she had paid all their debts; he owed to his rotisseur alone 10,000 livres.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

This recalls the proverb, "On devient cuisinier, mais on nait rotisseur!"

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

_Physiologie du Gout_, lays down the dictum that "A man may become a cook, but is born a _rotisseur_."

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

In the old French cuisine, moreover, roast joints of meat were virtually unknown; roasting was almost entirely confined to chickens, geese, turkeys, pheasants, etc.; and among the middle classes people largely bought their poultry already cooked of the _rotisseur_, or else confided it to him for the purpose of roasting, in the same way as our poorer classes still send their joints to the baker's.

The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

His wife would not go away until she had paid all their debts; he owed to his rotisseur alone 10,000 livres.

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 03 Charlotte-Elisabeth Orleans 1687

His wife would not go away until she had paid all their debts; he owed to his rotisseur alone 10,000 livres.

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Charlotte-Elisabeth Orleans 1687

The repas served up in three services, or courses, with entrees and hors d’oeuvres, exclusive of the fruit, consisted of about twenty dishes, extremely well dressed by the rotisseur, who is the best cook I ever knew, in France, or elsewhere; but the plates were not presented with much order.

Travels through France and Italy 2004