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Feb 04, 1810 Meaux, Île de France, France Died on 05 Aug 1858 (aged 48)
French chef
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About Alexis Soyer
- 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.
