Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alexis Benoît Soyer NPG D6822

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Bryan Hall, after (Elizabeth) Emma Soyer (née Jones)

A French chef, in 1837 Soyer was appointed the first chef at the newly created Reform Club in Pall Mall. He helped design the kitchens, instituting many innovations; the kitchens were so famous that they were opened for conducted tours. In 1847 the government asked Soyer to install soup kitchens in Ireland to help alleviate the famine there and during the Crimean War he went to Scutari to reorganise the catering in the hospitals. Soyer wrote a number of books about cooking. A Shilling Cookery... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.