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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 11585, 22 October 1901, Page 3

A strike of cooks occurred in the Royal Palace at Madrid recently, and Spain's Royal Family had (says the London "Daily Ha'il") to cook their "own dinner. When the dire news became known quiie a panic ensued among the upper servants, and. a lady was sent out in haste to purchase, a copy of the famous gastronomical work of Briilat Savarin, in order to become, with its help, a substitute for the cooks on strike. The Roval Faniilv treated the affair as a joke, but nevertheless on the first day of the strike they were reduced to severe straits. Cold meat and preserves would have been their only portion but for the skill of the King's sisters. These august ladies, who have been brought up by their mother, the Queen Regent, to a full practical knowledge of domestic work, and are skilled in all the branches of housewifery, concocted the one hot dish of the day with their own fair hands. The cause of the strike, which led to the cooks throwing down their caps nad aprons, is said to bet lie strict system of keeping; accounts in the kitchen." by which the cooks considered their dignity offended.