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Alexis Soyer

1809-1858

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

During the Irish potato famine Soyer set up soup kitchens in Dublin. His Shilling Cookery for the People was the first cookbook written for working people.

For sheer inventiveness and love of show, no cook has matched Alexis Soyer, whose first recorded prank (at the age of twelve) was to call out the fire brigade by ringing the church bells at midnight in his home town of Meaux-en-Brie. Expelled from choir school as a result, he gleefully abandoned thoughts of the priesthood for a career in cooking.

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