# Cooks who Kill! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350 "2015-09-15T13:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/61 "2015-09-18T10:31:46Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I thought of a somewhat obscure one: in one of the _Sharpe_ episodes, there is a French cook who leads a group of murderous deserters (not “dessert-ers” :D). He’s shown killing a soldier at the start of the episode. Ah, yes – Maréchal Pot-au-Feu. He happens not to get killed in the course of the good guys’ rounding up the deserters; as it’s Christmastime, they let him stay alive and unharmed, at least temporarily – on the condition that he excel himself in producing truly terrific meals for the festivities. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/62 "2015-09-18T10:45:56Z")
Something which kind of semi-fits the bill here, is the “black comedy” ballad by W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan),_The Yarn of the ‘Nancy Bell’_. It concerns a castaway group of shipwrecked mariners, including the ship’s cook: to survive, they kill and eat one member of the group at a time. (Gilbert seems to have had a real “thing” about cannibalism – it pops up rather frequently in his comic verse.) The cook’s strategy is that he will obviously have to be the final one left, because he’s the only one who knows how to cook the victims – however, his plan goes wrong at the last moment. > **[YOYO88 : Situs Main Judi Online, Slot Online Pragmatic & Slot88...](https://www.jalanjalanlagi.com)** > > YOYO88 adalah Raja situs judi slot online gacor terbaik dan populer di Indonesia saat ini. Main game judi online dan Menangkan jackpot uang asli hingga milyaran rupiah cuma di YOYO88! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/63 "2015-09-18T15:19:21Z")
> **[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078488/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel. One by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Each chef murdered in the same manner that their... Who Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe For those who love cooking and murder ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/64 "2015-09-18T15:26:01Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > Ah, yes – Maréchal Pot-au-Feu. He happens not to get killed in the course of the good guys’ rounding up the deserters; as it’s Christmastime, they let him stay alive and unharmed, at least temporarily – on the condition that he excel himself in producing truly terrific meals for the festivities. Heh though one would think that putting a murderer who is also a cook in charge of your food after giving him a serious reason to hate and fear you may not be the best of ideas … ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/65 "2015-09-18T15:32:48Z")
Though if I remember rightly, Pot-au-Feu is nasty, but not brave – unlikely to pull a “Samson in the temple” number. And I expect a couple of people who know about cooking, get assigned to keep a close watch on him… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/66 "2015-09-25T01:57:55Z")
> [@HyacinthBucket](#): > > **Murder Under Glass, Columbo** - restaurant critic and amateur chef Louis Jourdan > > bumps off a restauranteur who’s threatening to expose Jourdan’s blackmailing. His preparation of _fugu_ requires some serious cooking chops, as does his use of the fish’s toxin. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CChv6tMd4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CChv6tMd4) Spoilers unnecessary. With Columbo, we know who did it in the first two minutes. The spoiler is, how did Columbo know? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/67 "2015-09-25T02:09:39Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Spoilers unnecessary. With Columbo, we know who did it in the first two minutes. The spoiler is, how did Columbo know? That said, we don’t know who did it until the _end_ of the Martin Landau episode. Well, sort of. I mean, we know _Landau_ did it, because we see him do it – but was it Landau as the cold banker, or was it Landau as _his twin brother the celebrity chef?_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350/68 "2015-09-30T14:38:37Z")
James Bond isn’t just a professional killer who knows his caviar and has very specific drink preferences; he’s a guy who makes a damn fine quiche for his girl du jour. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooks-who-kill/731350.md?page=3)