Soyer left the Reform Club kitchen for the Crimean hospitals at his own expense, found Nightingale’s patients being poisoned by their own kitchens, and rebuilt the system: field stoves, proper rations, trained regimental cooks. The book is half memoir, half campaign report, and entirely characteristic of the man.
The most flamboyant chef of the age, feeding an army badly in need of him. Download the free EPUB.