Relish
The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef
$66.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2018
Summary
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 succession of best-selling cookbooks - one selling more than a quarter of a million copies, an extraordinary figure for the mid-nineteenth century. He was also the first to produce branded merchandise, including a remarkably ingenious stove that fitte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474609425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474609422 |
| Author: | Ruth Cowen |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 218mm x 23mm |
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A masterly account not only of a Victorian chef but of a Victorian era
The most admirable and attractive of all chefs has been given an equally admirable and attractive biographyExcellent, entertaining and vivid … colourful, compassionate, generous, inventive, indefatigable. Now at last [Soyer] has the biography he deserves - SUNDAY TIMESRuth Cowen has brought Alexis Soyer back to life with the kind of flourish he would have appreciated - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Ruth Cowen
Ruth Cowen is an historian, multi-award-winning author, journalist, broadcaster, editor and speaker. Her first book RELISH: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ALEXIS SOYER, VICTORIAN CELEBRITY CHEF won the Jeremy Round First Book Award and the Guild of Food Writers Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Glenfiddich Award and the Irish Book Awards. MILDRED RANSOM’S BUREAU will be published in 2022.
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