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Portrait of a Chef - The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club (Paperback)
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Portrait of a Chef - The Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club (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. 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 Francois 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.
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