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 Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis, Jr. Riding off the success of the title single which was at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 after 8 weeks on the chart, the album entered the Billboard Top LPs chart at #82 in the end of October 1962. It peaked at #14, staying on the chart for 22 weeks, the last of which was the week Davis' 1963 live album "Sammy Davis Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove" entered the Top LPs chart.