PORTRAIT OF A CHEF: ALEXIS SOYER - 1938 - COOKING, CELEBRITY + HUMANITARIAN COOK WORLD / CULTURES This particular copy has been

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A wonderful book about the author's firsthand account of Navajo rites and practices detailing the flora and fauna used in healing practices of the tribe's Medicine Man

Davenport Museum stamp on inside board

- Witnesses

PORTRAIT OF A CHEF: ALEXIS SOYER - 1938 - COOKING, CELEBRITY + HUMANITARIAN COOK WORLD / CULTURES This particular copy has beenPORTRAIT OF A CHEF: THE LIFE OF ALEXIS SOYER SOMETIME CHEF TO THE REFORM CLUB Book Details + Condition: Cambridge at the University Press (Cambridge, UK). First Edition, 1938. Hardcover. 216 pages. Illustrated. Author Helen Morris chronicles the dazzling, influential life of Alexis Soyer (1810 1858), Victorian England's first celebrity chef, detailing his rise from French trainee to the Reform Club's revolutionary head chef, his creation of modern