Book contents
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Prologue
- CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE
- CHAPTER II EMMA JONES
- CHAPTER III CHEF DE CUISINE TO THE REFORM CLUB
- CHAPTER IV ‘THE GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR’
- CHAPTER V INVENTIONS
- CHAPTER VI BANQUETS
- CHAPTER VII SOUP-KITCHENS: IRELAND AND SPITALFIELDS
- CHAPTER VIII ‘THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE’
- CHAPTER IX RESIGNATION: WORK IN THE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER X THE GASTRONOMIC SYMPOSIUM OF ALL NATIONS
- CHAPTER XI THE YEARS 1851–4
- CHAPTER XII SOYER AT SCUTARI
- CHAPTER XIII CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VENI
- CHAPTER XIV CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VIDI
- CHAPTER XV CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VICI
- CHAPTER XVI ‘ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS’
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- INDEX
CHAPTER VI - BANQUETS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Prologue
- CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE
- CHAPTER II EMMA JONES
- CHAPTER III CHEF DE CUISINE TO THE REFORM CLUB
- CHAPTER IV ‘THE GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR’
- CHAPTER V INVENTIONS
- CHAPTER VI BANQUETS
- CHAPTER VII SOUP-KITCHENS: IRELAND AND SPITALFIELDS
- CHAPTER VIII ‘THE MODERN HOUSEWIFE’
- CHAPTER IX RESIGNATION: WORK IN THE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER X THE GASTRONOMIC SYMPOSIUM OF ALL NATIONS
- CHAPTER XI THE YEARS 1851–4
- CHAPTER XII SOYER AT SCUTARI
- CHAPTER XIII CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VENI
- CHAPTER XIV CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VIDI
- CHAPTER XV CULINARY CAMPAIGN: VICI
- CHAPTER XVI ‘ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS’
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- INDEX
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Portrait of a ChefThe Life of Alexis Soyer, Sometime Chef to the Reform Club, pp. 68 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1938