Careme The First Celebrity Chef

ISBN: 9781526689771
Publication date: 01/10/2025

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From historian and screenwriter, Ian Kelly, comes the legendary story of Carame, the original celebrity chef.

Recounting the fairy-tale-like rise of Antonin Carame from Parisian orphan to a household name synonymous with culinary luxury, Carame offers a unique conflation of historical biography, social history and cookery guide. Kelly lifts the veil on one of the most momentous and sensuous periods in European history- First Empire Paris, Georgian England and the tsarist Russia of War and Peace, depicting Carame s entanglements with the social and political elite of his age, from King George IV to Napoleon, the Romanovs to the Rothschilds.

Alongside this story of Carame, the trail-blazing celebrity chef, culinary artist and revolutionary food writer, Ian Kelly brings to life the recipes themselves.

Ian Kelly is a multi-award-winning writer and actor whose work spans stage (West End and Broadway), screen, historical biography and ballet. His books include Carame, which has been adapted as an AppleTV+ series, Beau Brummell, Casanova, Mr Foote s Other Leg, which was adapted for the stage, and the official autobiography of Vivienne Westwood. He lives in London and Los Angeles.

Pages: 320
Author: KELLY, IAN