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.
Não-Me-Toque the region of the Planalto Médio, in the micro-region of the Alto Jacuí, Rio Grande do Sul. It is 471km (292mi) away from the coast (or the nearest coastal city). It is neighbored by the city of Carazinho on the north (the largest city nearby), Lagoa dos Três Cantos on the south, Santo Antônio do Planalto on the east and Colorado on the west. It is 280km (173mi) away from the state's capital, Porto Alegre. Não-Me-Toque Não-Me-Toque (literally "don't touch me" in Portuguese) is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city's current territory