Alexis Soyer, cook extraordinary /
Elizabeth Ray with a foreword by Prue Leith
- London ; Southover Press, 1991
- xii, 179 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.