Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title, 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners frayed, soiled, [Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John Lyle).
Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title, 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners frayed, soiled, [Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John Lyle).
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