A Practical Treatise On English & Foreign Cookery In All Its Branches

FRANCATELLI, Charles Elme

[524] pp.

Richard Bentley & Son

1884

6 3/4″ x 5″

Francatelli, a native-born Englishman of Italian extraction, studied under Carme in France and variously served as chef to the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Dudley, Lord Kinnaird, St. James s Club, Queen Victoria, the Reform Club, &c. “While able to dress the costliest banquets, Francatelli was likewise a culinary economist [who also wrote a cook book for the working classes]. On one occasion he characteristically remarked that he could feed every day a thousand families on the food that was wasted in London.”