Alexis Soyer
French chef
Died when: 48 years 182 days (582 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Alexis Benoît Soyer (4 February 1810 – 5 August 1858) was a French chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England.He also tried to alleviate suffering of the Irish poor in the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), and contributed a penny for the relief of the poor for every copy sold of his pamphlet The Poor Man's Regenerator (1847).
He worked to improve the food provided to British soldiers in the Crimean War.A variant of the field stove he invented at that time, known as the "Soyer stove", remained in use with the British army until 1982.
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