The People's Chef - The culinary revolutions of Alexis Soyer

Ruth Brandon

Walker & Company

2004

319 páginas

10h 38m

ISBN-10: 0802714528

During the first half of the 19th century, the most famous cook - and one of the most famous men on London - was Alexis Soyer. In her new biography, Ruth Brandon explores this bon vivant with a social conscience whose epic career spanned the worlds of high society and ordinary men and women, and who embodied all the contradictions of the Victorian age.