There are as many legends surrounding the tall white hat that symbolizes culinary expertise as there are ways to bake a cake. One likely tale is that the head cooks in households were allowed to wear high cloth headdresses patterned on the crowns of their royal masters. This distinction was intended to encourage valuable servants to remain faithful to their masters, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned. The ribs or pleats in the headdress represented the ribs in the king''s crown and were stitched into the cloth and stiffened with starch. Today the chef''s hat has one hundred pleats -- said to represent the one hundred ways that a good chef should be able to cook eggs. This legend vest probably originated in ancient, where mater culinarians vest were presented with bonnet-like caps studded with laurel leaves. Other sources say the story comes is of fairly recent origin.

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