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SOYER, Alexis. Soyer's Culinary Campaign. Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With the Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions, the Army, Navy, Public, etc., etc.
London: G. Routledge & Co., 1857. 12mo., rebound in modern blue cloth, 597pp. With illustrations. Some fading along spine, a very good copy.
Alexis Soyer was the most celebrated cook in Victorian England. He travelled to the Crimea where he worked with Florence Nightingale to improve the food served to the soldiers during the Crimean War, and invented the “Soyer stove”, a field cooking device that was used by the British army until 1982.