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Perhaps the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer (1810-58) was a flamboyant, larger-than-life character who nonetheless took his profession very seriously. As the chef of the Reform Club, he modernised its kitchens, installing refrigerators and gas cookers. In 1851, during the Great Exhibition, he prepared spectacular (but financially ruinous) culinary extravaganzas at his restaurant, the Gastronomic Symposium of All Nations. In stark contrast, he organised soup kitchens during the Great Famine in Ireland and volunteered his services in the Crimea in 1855 to improve military catering. This work, first published in 1857, gives a vivid account of his efforts to prepare nutritious meals for the soldiers using a newly invented portable field stove, which remained in use until the Second World War. Also reissued in this series are Soyer's Gastronomic Regenerator (1846) and The Modern Housewife or Ménagère (1849).

Crimean War, 1853-1856. --- Cooking for military personnel. --- Cookery, Military --- Cooking, Military --- Military personnel, Cooking for --- Armed Forces --- Russo-Turkish War, 1853-1856 --- Russo-Turkish Wars, 1676-1878 --- Eastern question (Balkan) --- Soyer, Alexis, --- Soyer, A. --- Soyer, Alexis

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"Food is critical to military performance, but it's also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War didn't shed their eating preferences with their civilian clothes and the army rations, heavily reliant on bully beef and hardtack biscuit, were frequently found wanting. Nutritional science of the day had only a limited understanding of the role of vitamins and minerals, and the men were often presented with a diet that, shortages and logistics permitting, was high in calories but low in flavour and variety. Just as now, soldiers on active service were linked with home through the lovingly packed food parcels they received; a taste of home in the trenches. This book uses the personal accounts of the men themselves to explore a subject that was central not only to their physical health, but also to their emotional survival."--Publisher's website.

Cooking for military personnel --- Food supply --- Military morale --- Operational rations (Military supplies) --- Soldiers --- War and society --- World War, 1914-1918 --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Combat rations --- Field rations --- Rations --- Armies --- Food --- Troop morale --- Morale --- Psychology, Military --- Cookery, Military --- Cooking, Military --- Military personnel, Cooking for --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- History --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Commissariat