[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...
This post will introduce you to Alexis Soyer's books, his various sauces and beverages and to some of his later inventions....
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...
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....
For those that are interested in the correct dates of people surrounding Alexis Soyer and his immediate family births deaths and marriages....
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...
Wreath left on Facebook page and Fanny Ceritto's wreath...
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...
Emma Jones was born in London in 1813, and was instructed in French, Italian, and music. At a very early age she became a pupil of the Belgian painter Francois Simoneau (1783 - 1859), who in 1820 married her mother, Mrs. Jones. Finding that Emma...