The People's Chef
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-470-86991-8 (ISBN)
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, Alexis Soyer, a Frenchman from Meaux, was the most famous cook in London. A combination of chance, talent and social conscience took him into many of the great events of his time. Born in 1810, he cooked his was through the Paris July Days in 1830; he oversaw the building of Londona s most modern kitchen at the Reform Club, where he ran the kitchen from 1837--1850; he designed a model soup--kitchen which he took to Ireland, at the Lord Lieutenanta s request, during the 1847 famine; he opened Londona s first Parisian--type restaurant in conjunction with the Great Exhibition in 1851; and in 1855, he went to the Crimea to take over the running of the kitchens in Florence Nightingalea s hospital at Scutari. When he died in 1858, Soyer was helping Miss Nightingale reform British army catering.
Ruth Brandon is a historian, biographer and novelist, who uses biography to look at particular topics through individual lives. Her books have ranged from detective stories to non fiction but all explore the reasons why people think and act in the way that they do at a particular moment. Her previous books include Singer and the Sewing Machine: a Capitalist Romance, The Dollar Princesses, The Spiritualists, The New Women and the Old Men, The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini, Surreal Lives, Tickling the Dragon, The Uncertainty Principle and Automobile. Prior to finding her natural medium in books, Ruth worked as a television and radio producer with the BBC and subsequently as a freelance journalist. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge.
List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. The Menu. 1: The Soup. 2: The Fish. 3: The Hors d'Oeuvres. 4: Releve: Mutton Cutlets Reform. 5: Entree Chaude: Famine Soup. 6: Roast: Quail a la Symposium. 7: Entremets: Turkish Delights. 8: Coffee. Soyer Bibliography. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.4.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations , ports. |
| Verlagsort | Chichester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 536 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-86991-7 / 0470869917 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-86991-8 / 9780470869918 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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