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Two young American people meeting, shaking hands, and courteously greeting each other was an unusual sight to me, but after all a natural one. He was glad to come again. We went at once to dinner. I wondered from where the new "chefess" and her assistant "potato peeler" had procured the materials necessary to so pretentious a meal.
Frances Little - The House of the Misty Star: A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan

Fish, chickens, pigs, eggs, and native delicacies of all kinds she had cooked and sauced so appetizingly that I conferred on her the title of "Chefess" de Cuisine, and voiced my suspicions that some deserting cook from a flagship had traded his lore for her kisses. Her laughter was spiced with pride, and the chief himself smilingly nodded and gestured to assure me that I had guessed right.
Frederick O'Brien - White Shadows in the South Seas

I haven't been to a party in a century. If Miss Gray will be the 'chefess, I'll be assistant potato peeler. I can make the best salad. It's called 'Salade de la Marquise de Chateaubriand'; but it won't hurt you. It is only peanuts and cabbage. Daddy and I used to feast on it once a week." After all there was nothing I could label a reason why he and Zura should not meet.
Frances Little - The House of the Misty Star: A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan
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