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A biographical, historical account of history’s most notorious and celebrated chefs, including Charles Francatelli, Eustache Ude, Eliza Acton, Agnes Marshall. Charles Francatelli and Alexis Soyer. It also covers important American cooks such as Hercules, George Washington’s black enslaved American c... Read more
Published: 2017
Pages: 204
Paperback: 9781909248533
A biographical, historical account of history’s most notorious and celebrated chefs, including Charles Francatelli, Eustache Ude, Eliza Acton, Agnes Marshall. Charles Francatelli and Alexis Soyer. It also covers important American cooks such as Hercules, George Washington’s black enslaved American chef, George Speck, credited with the invention of the potato chip, Fannie Merritt Farmer of the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook fame, Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico’s, New York, and Amelia Simmons whose American Cookery is the first cookbook on American culture in the kitchen, including the first ‘koekje’ or ‘cookie’ recipe.