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Title: THE CHEF AT WAR
By: Alexis Soyer
Format: Paperback

List price: £6.99


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ISBN 10: 0241950910
ISBN 13: 9780241950913
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 7 April, 2011
Series: Penguin Great Food
Pages: 128
Translated from: French
Description: The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This title offers an account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating.
Synopsis: The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in the Crimean War, where he joined British troops in order to improve the quality of the food they were eating. Divulging the secrets of preparing stew for 1000 soldiers, sharing sweetmeats with a Turkish Pacha, and teaching a Highland regiment to cook with his pioneering gas-fuelled 'field stove' that would be used by armies up until the Second World War, Soyer gives a vividly enjoyable lesson in making a little go a long way.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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