Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
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The Importance of Remembering the Crimean War
Alexis Soyer is a celebrity chef who worked for the British establishment. He goes to Crimea to try and advise on food, finds army eating very basic stuff. Suggests they could do an awful lot better if they knew just a little about cookery. And he develops them a portable stove - ancestor of today's camping stoves.
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