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.
What Is a Rumpletilskin? What Is a Rumpletilskin? What Is a Rumpletilskin? is the first and only album by hip hop group Rumpletilskinz, released on July 13, 1993, on RCA Records and produced by the group's producer, R.P.M. The album failed to make it to any of the "Billboard" charts, but two singles did, "Attitudes" and "Is It All Right?" Both made it to #24 on the Hot Rap Singles. This release received extensive national independent retail promotion through Poindexter International Marketing & Promotions, which was employed by RCA Records. It was also one of the first projects managed by James "DJ Ras J"