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Ooh, ooh, my useless liberal arts doctorate can pay off! A really cool figure in the history of military comestibles is the French chef Alexis Soyer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Soyer He was basically the OG celebrity chef of the early to mid-19th century: famous throughout Europe, served royalty and other bigwigs, etc. However, he also had a major populist streak. He devoted a ton of time developing recipes and cooking technology for various subsets of the population. For example, he wrote cookbooks for British lower class women to be able to eat well on a poverty budget, etc. So, for relevance to the thread, he actually worked with the British and their allies in the Crimean War to improve the quality of cooking and food on the front. He's perhaps most famous for developing a sort of portable gas stove that remained in vogue for quite a long time, supposedly even used to this day (the "Soyer stove" or "magic stove"). This sounds a little apocryphal, but it's likely that there may be some type of stove in use out there that doesn't differ too much from an old design... Teketeketeketeke fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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