03 Oct Another Soyer who was considered the best chef in the world in his time, and claimed he was the grandson of the ‘Great Soyer’.
[caption id="attachment_16330" align="aligncenter" width="300"] New York Times article about Nicolas Soyer circa 1911[/caption] Another Soyer who was considered the best chef in the world in his time, and claimed he was the grandson of the 'Great Soyer'. Onto the culinary stage of London in 1911, stepped a...
10 Sep Its Saucy, it is a Gas, He is an Author of Books and an Inventor as Well.
This post will introduce you to Alexis Soyer's books, his various sauces and beverages and to some of his later inventions....
28 Aug The Benefactor !!
This is to introduce the reader to a man that made Alexis life miserable in his last 8 years of life. His name was David Hart of Lemon Hart & Son. who also annexed Alexis will so none of the bequests could be made....
20 Aug Soyer’s Universal Symposium of All nations at Gore House.
One of Alexis Soyer's major challenges, his Soyer's Universal Symposium which he set up in 1851 to compete against The Great Exhibition of All Nations...
17 Aug Soyer’s Magic Stove or his Lilliputian Apparatus.
This is a post about Alexis during the year 1850, including his invention Soyer's Magic Stove....
11 Aug The Memoirs of Alexis Soyer. By F.R Volant & J. Warren.
This page is to correct the many errors written in this book, to explain why these errors have been written deliberately detrimental to Alexis' reputation. To explain why some authors have used these mistakes and how some embellished the errors....
24 Jul Births, deaths & Marriages.
For those that are interested in the correct dates of people surrounding Alexis Soyer and his immediate family births deaths and marriages....
17 Jul Soup Kitchens and the Great Hunger.
Dublin Soup Kitchen Soup kitchens The great hunger. There had been Famines before it and Famines after it. Without a doubt, the worse was the Great Irish Famine 1846-1851. This period especially 1846 and 1847 was affected by Government propaganda and revisionist and national historians and much of...
13 Jul Alexis’ Relationship with Francesca Cerrito.
Francesca (Fanny) Cerrito. Fanny, as she was more popularly known, started her affair with Alexis in circa 1851 and married him in 1857. it was one of the best-kept secrets. None of Alexis' or Fanny's circle of friends knew about it, although a couple suspected...