My Kingdom for a Cook plot
"LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN A COOK, Liberal Reward of LAUGHS if Returned Before Supper!"
Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a goodwill lecture tour of the United States. His English gourmet chef is unable to accompany him, and this upsets him more than a little. He hires a cook with eighteen years of service from a New England socialite. This act of diplomatic rudeness gives rise to several complications that become more problematic after Morley's daughter begins a romance with the socialite's son.