Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef by Ruth Cowen

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Ruth Cowen

352 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Alexis Soyer (1810-1858) was a working-class Frenchman from an unremarkable town north-west of Paris, but his exceptional cooking skills and ebullient personality turned him into Britain's first true celebrity chef. He was the first to publish a s...

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