Compare his autonomy and fame, the mansions housing him and the state dinners at which he regularly feasted, with the shopkeeper-turned-soldier in the militia or the Continental Army whose days passed in chilblained, hungry misery.
But Jack Frost wasn't far away and hard on the chilblained heels of that little taste of spring, we're back in Michelin man mode togged up in scarves, hats, gloves and mufflers.