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Ritz, in his too-small shoes, may have felt ennobled by the presence of Princess Alexandra and the Duc d’Orléans. But though it is the glittering beau monde which draws the reader’s eye, this story is more about those who served them, and the rise of the less-glittering services industry. The subtitle of this very readable book is “The Hotelier, the Chef and the Rise of the Leisure Class”. Quite literally: fearing his peasant feet were too large, he always wore his shoes a half-size too small. He had been born the son of a Swiss peasant farmer and never forgot the pains of his origins. Now, all high society-the Duc d’Orléans, Princess Alexandra, even the Prince of Wales himself-entertained in Ritz’s hotels. Once, the grandest people had hosted their get-togethers “At Home”. Now, it started to flow: into the new industrial classes, the leisure industry and the glasses of vintage champagne served by Ritz (after a falling-out at the Savoy, in hotels that bore his name).Īs money shifted, so did social boundaries. Once, money had been held in the hands and lands of a few wealthy aristocrats. But you can learn a lot from what people eat, including about money. Monarchs and crises are their meat and drink, not real meat and drink. Historians usually prefer more serious fodder. Guests were presented with tiny peach and cherry trees from which they cut the fruit with golden scissors. Johann Strauss and his orchestra were engaged to provide background music. They were flavoured not merely with the garlic that Escoffier championed (popular opinion considered it “unrefined and repulsive”) but with a whiff of fin de siècle extravagance.
Food was fresh and gently marinated in delicate sauces the guests were marinated in the finest bubbly. Escoffier introduced to the kitchens the concepts of electric light, hygiene and sobriety (“We are not drunks…We’re cooks”). Ritz purged the Savoy of its old-fashioned fussy trinkets and replaced them with elegant palm trees and banks of flowers.
Together they revolutionised London society. Their restaurants were unsophisticated, their kitchens filthy and their chefs rude-and often drunk. This was the greatest city on Earth, yet its hotels were dismal. When Ritz and Escoffier arrived in London from Europe-they had been hired to transform the Savoy-they were shocked. Ritz himself became not merely a byword for luxury but the actual word for it: the Oxford Dictionary defines “ritzy” as “expensively stylish”. When you eat a Peach Melba, or drink a Grand Marnier, you have these men to thank they coined the names, then popularised the concoctions. As Luke Barr explains in “Ritz and Escoffier”, at the end of the 19th century this hotelier, along with Auguste Escoffier, his chef, transformed not just hotels but the lexicon of luxury itself.
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