![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "These, I found out, were the master cooks, some of whom one day might rise to the position of chef, with large staffs of their own, In the meantime they worked under M. Menager (equivalent to chef de cuisine in a restaurant at the time), who had eighteen chefs working under him, eight of whom had their own tables in different parts of the kitchen. Recalling his arrival at Buckingham Palace to start as a kitchen apprentice, Tschumi described the Royal chef M. At the age of 16 in 1899, he was appointed a cook’s apprentice in the kitchens of the Royal Household through the good offices of his cousin, Louise Tschumi, who was at the time one of Queen Victoria’s dressers. Tschumi was born in about 1883, in Moudon, Switzerland, where his father was a professor of languages his father was killed in an accident three days after his birth. Gabriel Tschumi (1883–27 April 1957) was a native of Switzerland who served as Master Chef to three British monarchs: Queen Victoria and Kings Edward VII and George V. ![]()
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