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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer is a children-friendly biography about a multi-talented (and busy) chef who also helped incorporate his culinary skills into social problems. Soyer worked for many of England's elite as a personal chef but also helped feed the poor and the less-fortunate soldiers fighting in the Crimean war. What I really liked, and also learned, was that he and Florence Nightingale were pseudo-confidantes.A very good book to give to any child with an interest in cooking. ( ) A picture book for older readers about an interesting but not well known chef, Alexis Soyer, who not only was a culinary phenomenon, but a social activist as well. Mr. Soyer helped feed the poor as well as the rich, serving food during the Irish potato famine and cooking for British soldiers fighting in the Crimea. He was a contemporary of Florence Nightingale. Makes one want to do further research on this interesting, flamboyant man. He wrote: 1. A shilling Cookery for the People, for the poor, 2. The Gastronomic Regenerator, a recipe book for the wealthy, 3. The Modern Housewife, for the middle class, and 4. A Culinary campaign, about his adventures in the Crimea. Pair with other books about chefs and cooking: Fannie in the Kitchen by Deborah Hopkinson
Gillian Engberg (Booklist, Dec. 15, 2002 (Vol. 99, No. 8)) In this picture book for older children Arnold uses whimsical drawings and a lively text to introduce Alexis Soyer, one of the most accomplished and celebrated cooks in nineteenth-century Europe. She follows the chef's fascinating career, from his apprenticeship to his cooking for the aristocracy to his move to London's upper-crust Reform Club, where his cuisine and innovative kitchen designs brought him world renown. Arnold also includes insight into Soyer's wildly creative activities as a social reformer: he trained "charitable women" how to cook soup for the poor, wrote socially conscious cookbooks, created portable soup kitchens for the Irish during the potato famine, and completely revolutionized the way food was prepared for hospitals and the military (he cooked for the troops during the Crimean War). Unfortunately, there are neither source notes nor an author's note to support the well-shaped, animated text, which is filled with dialogue. But Arnold's clean-lined, watercolor-and-pen illustrations, several per page, sparkle with lavishly depicted banquets, close-ups of Soyer's inventions (including a cross-section of the elaborate Reform Club kitchen), and portraits of the chef that, like the narrative, give a sense of Soyer's complexity--his talent, energy, flamboyance, and heart. A unique, delightful offering that will work well with Alice Waters' Fanny at Chez Panisse (1993), which Arnold illustrated. Category: Books for Middle Readers--Nonfiction. 2002, Farrar/Frances Foster, $17. Gr. 3-6.
A biography of a flamboyant, successful French chef and inventor of kitchen tools who opened soup kitchens during the Irish potato famine and taught the army how to feed itself during the Crimean War. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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