TY - JOUR AB - The Victorian age in England produced an abundance of eccentrics; not least among them a Frenchman called Alexis Soyer. He was a dandy, a cook, a practical joker, a best‐selling author, a gourmet who organised soup kitchens in the Irish famine, a man‐about‐town who slaved in the Crimea as the valued assistant of Florence Nightingale, and an inventor whose patent stove is still in use after more than a hundred years. VL - 82 IS - 6 SN - 0034-6659 DO - 10.1108/eb058919 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058919 AU - Morris Helen PY - 1982 Y1 - 1982/01/01 TI - ALEXIS SOYER:Portrait of a chef T2 - Nutrition & Food Science PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 4 EP - 6 Y2 - 2024/04/20 ER -