Item #191881 THE PANTROPHEON: A History Of Food & Its Preparation In Ancient Times. Alexis SOYER.
THE PANTROPHEON: A History Of Food & Its Preparation In Ancient Times.
THE PANTROPHEON: A History Of Food & Its Preparation In Ancient Times.

THE PANTROPHEON: A History Of Food & Its Preparation In Ancient Times.

London, Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1853. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xvi + 474 + 2 pp.ads. and 42 tissue guarded steel plates, gilt printed title page. some occasional mild spotting. Cockerel marbled end papers. Bound in full dark blue calf, raised bands, gilt in compartments with a red title label.






Alexis Benoît Soyer was a French chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest celebrity chefs.He was head chef at The Reform Club and designed their innovative kitchens. He worked for the nobility in France and in England.

He also tried to alleviate suffering of the Irish poor in the Great Irish Famine, and contributed a penny for the relief of the poor for every copy sold of his pamphlet The Poor Man's Regenerator.

He worked to improve the food provided to British soldiers in the Crimean War. A variant of the field stove he invented at that time, known as the "Soyer stove", remained in use with the British army until 1982. Item #191881

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