Add this copy of Portrait of a Chef, the Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime to cart. $28.45, fair condition, Sold by artlessmissals rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Denver, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1938 by Cambridge University Press.
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Fair. 6x 9 x 1 inches. No dust jacket. Sunned spine fabric split most of the way down. Former owner name on fly page. Binding solid, pages toned with foxing, no other markings found. Faded gray boards that are scuffed and rubbed with foxing. Extremities bumped with small tears.
Add this copy of Portrait of a Chef to cart. $37.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Univ of Chicago Committee on.
Add this copy of Portrait of a Chef: the Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime to cart. $90.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1938 by Cambridge University Press.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, book nearly fine but for an inch-wide band of tan offsetting toward the inner hinge of the front flyleaf, jacket very good minus with light edgewear and chipping, mainly to rear panel. 221 pp, illustrated. Soyer (1810-1858) was a French chef, writer and inventor who made his reputation in Victorian England. During the Crimean War, reports reached London of the appalling privations endured by British soldiers, with disease rife and food inadequate. At the request of the British government Soyer travelled to the Crimea in 1855 and worked with the nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale to improve conditions for the troops. He ensured that in all parts of the army there were nominated cooks, useful recipes, and the means to cook food properly in particular, the portable Soyer stove which he invented and which remained in army use, with modifications, for more than a century. In the Crimea, Soyer became seriously ill; he never fully recovered his health. A little over a year after his return to London in 1857, he died of a stroke. (information from wikipedia).