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Soyer's Culinary Campaign - Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War (Paperback)
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Soyer's Culinary Campaign - Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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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. This work, first published in 1857, gives a vivid account
of his efforts to prepare nutritious meals for the soldiers using a
newly invented portable field stove, which remained in use until
the Second World War. Also reissued in this series are Soyer's
Gastronomic Regenerator (1846) and The Modern Housewife or Menagere
(1849).
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