Toque roots are sometimes traced to the "casque à meche" (stocking cap) worn by 18th-century French chefs. The colour of the "casque à meche" denoted the rank of the wearer. Boucher, the personal chef of the French statesman Talleyrand, was the first to insist on white toques for sanitary reasons. The modern toque is popularly believed to have originated with the French chef Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), who stiffened the "casque à meche" with cardboard . The pleated, low, round hat worn in French universities the equivalent of the mortarboard or tam at British and American universities is also called a toque.
A Kind of a Stopwatch 37 - Time master, Garfield has found a very special watch that can stop time. At first, he uses it to prolong nap times and meal times and play jokes on his friends, but then it turns against him when it gets stuck and the whole world around him freezes. A Kind of a Stopwatch "A Kind of a Stopwatch" is an episode of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone". In this episode, a man acquires a stopwatch which can stop time. Patrick McNulty is a self-important, annoying boor in his 40s. One day, he is summoned by