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It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
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What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you.
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Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.
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Alexis Soyer
Born:
February 4, 1810
Died:
August 5, 1858
(aged 48)
Bio:
Alexis Bénoit Soyer was a French celebrity chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England.
Known for:
A shilling cookery for the people (1854)
Soyer's culinary campaign (1857)
The Pantropheon (1853)
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