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Portrait of a Chef: The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club
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Portrait of a Chef: The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club Hardcover - 1938

by Morris, Helen

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  • Hardcover
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Cloth in dust jacket, book nearly fine but for an inch-wide band of tan offsetting toward the inner hinge of the front flyleaf, jacket very good minus with light edgewear and chipping, mainly to rear panel. 221 pp, illustrated. Soyer (1810-1858) was a French chef, writer and inventor who made his reputation in Victorian England. During the Crimean War, reports reached London of the appalling privations endured by British soldiers, with disease rife and food inadequate. At the request of the British government Soyer travelled to the Crimea in 1855 and worked with the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale to improve conditions for the troops. He ensured that in all parts of the army there were nominated cooks, useful recipes, and the means to cook food properly in particular, the portable Soyer stove which he invented and which remained in army use, with modifications, for more than a century. In the Crimea, Soyer became seriously ill; he never fully recovered his health. A little over a year after his return to London in 1857, he died of a stroke. (information from wikipedia).
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