Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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)






