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Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
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Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
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Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef

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A unique feast of biography and Regency cookbook, Cooking for Kings takes readers on a chef's tour of the palaces of Europe in the ultimate age of culinary indulgence.

Drawing on the legendary cook's rich memoirs, Ian Kelly traces Antonin Carême's meteoric rise from Paris orphan to international celebrity and provides a dramatic below-stairs perspective on one of the most momentous, and sensuous, periods in European history-First Empire Paris, Georgian England, and the Russia of War and Peace.

Carême had an unfailing ability to cook for the right people in the right place at the right time. He knew the favorite dishes of King George IV, the Rothschilds and the Romanovs; he knew Napoleon's fast-food requirements, and why Empress Josephine suffered halitosis.

Carême's recipes still grace the tables of restaurants the world over. Now classics of French cuisine, created for, and named after, the kings and queens for whom he worked, they are featured throughout this captivating biography. In the phrase first coined by Carême, "You can try them yourself."
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 26, 2009
ISBN9780802719324
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Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
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Ian Kelly

Ian Kelly has written prize-winning biographies of Casanova, Beau Brummell, and Antonin Carême. He combines this with acting, from the art-historian in Lee Hall’s The Pitman Painters to Hermione’s father in the final instalments of the Harry Potter films.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Informative and historically interesting, although the recipes do not seem to be all that useful as too faithful to out-dated kitchens.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I loved this book. Its how a very poor lad raised himself up to become a great chief. He cooked for monarchs and noblemen, even baking Napoleon's wedding cake. Very colorful and full of surprises.