George Had Under Him Five Cooks

George had under him five cooks of various characters and looks with great experience of many a year in numerous countries both far and near, all culinary experts of great art, who were always ready to provide any dish the customer might decide to order from the menu cards. And among these fellows there was one who in preparing fancy dishes some might say this man a genius is, as skills as precious and pure as his in creating flavours of such power are hard to find in this world of ours. Tall he was with a face so narrow his nose projected like an arrow, and of his country he was so proud that never a person was allowed to make the slightest disparagement without receiving an icy glance. Disliked he was by all his fellows, his manner haughty, hard, not mellow, which caused all kinds of minor friction with his colleagues in the kitchen. from The Adventures of George ©Blair Gowrie (Roderick Macdonald) http://www.macdonrod.com