Name: Portrait of a Chef: The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century) (en Inglés)
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Author: Helen Soutar Morris
ISBN: 9781108061698

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Portrait of a Chef: The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Helen Soutar Morris

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

254

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108061698

N° edición

Categorías

Historia social y cultural
Cocina / comidas y bebidas, etc.

Portrait of a Chef: The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19Th Century) (en Inglés)

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Perhaps the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer (1810-58) was a flamboyant, larger-than-life character who nonetheless took his profession very seriously. As the chef of the Reform Club, he modernised its kitchens, installing refrigerators and gas cookers. In 1851, during the Great Exhibition, he prepared spectacular (but financially ruinous) culinary extravaganzas at his restaurant, the Gastronomic Symposium of All Nations. In stark contrast, he organised soup kitchens during the Great Famine in Ireland and volunteered his services in the Crimea in 1855 to improve military catering. He was also a prolific inventor of kitchen gadgets, notably promoting the Magic Stove, used for cooking food at the table. First published in 1938, this biography by Helen Soutar Morris (1909-95) is based on François Volant and James Warren's anecdotal account of 1859 (also reissued in this series), and it faithfully conveys the adulation that Soyer engendered in his lifetime.