Original: Marie Antoine ( AntoninDarra Goldstein , '' Russia , Carême , and the Culinary Arts '' The Slavonic and East European Review 73.4 ( October 1995:691 -715 ) p. 691 , note 1 remarks that he preferred the Russian Antonin . )
Simplified: Napoleon was not interested in having fancy food , but he knew of social contacts were important for diplomts .