Alexis Soyer

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in the nineteenth century by Dr Annie Gray and comedian Ed Gamble to learn all about French celebrity chef Alexis Soyer. Despite being well-known during his lifetime, Soyer is virtually unknown today. His primary legacy was a portable stove, used by the British army until the Falklands War. But Soyer was a prototypical celebrity chef: he opened the Reform Club kitchen to the public so that they could watch him cook, wrote popular cookbooks, sold kitchen gadgets and branded sauces, and even took part in high-profile charity campaigns. From his birth in France to the success he found in London, via a soup kitchen in Dublin and a hospital during the Crimean War, this episode explores Alexis Soyer’s extraordinary life and culinary innovations. Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Hannah Campbell Hewson Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook

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0:00.0	I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read
0:08.2	everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.
0:14.7	It's part of what it means to be human.
0:17.5	Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.
0:22.1	There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative.
0:25.0	The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan
0:29.0	with me Rory Stewart,
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0:35.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to You're Dead to Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:44.5	My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:47.7	And today we are tying out aprons and firing up the stove
0:50.9	as we learn all about 19th century celebrity chef Alexi Soye and to help us
0:56.0	we have two very special dining companions in history corner she's an author broadcaster and
1:01.2	food historian specializing in food from 1600 to the present day,
1:04.7	that's a lot of food.
1:05.7	You might have heard her on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet, or read one of her many wonderful books,
1:10.7	including The Greedy Queen, all about King Victoria's food tastes, and you'll definitely
1:14.4	remember her from our delicious episode on the history of ice cream. It's Dr. Annie Gray,
1:18.3	welcome back Annie. Thank you for having me.
1:20.0	Lovely to have you back. And in comedy corner. He's a comedian,
1:22.8	podcaster, writer, broadcaster. He's a superstar he co-hosts the mega award winning off menu
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