Chef Collection (page 2)

Napoleon Bonaparte, General en Chef, 1800
Napoleon Bonaparte, General en Chef, in uniform of General of the Army of Italy, Napoleonic Wars. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

French cook engaged for a special Elizabethan feast
French cook engaged to devise his own contributions to a special feast at a rich mans house in Elizabethan times. Date: 16th century

Rich mans kichen staff at work
A rich mans kichen staff at work, depicting the hospitality and charity of old times, when food was given away to poor people. 16th century

Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention. " Human Salamanders" :The Lascar at Work and Play. Employed on board P&O Australian Line liners - working as Coal Stokers

US 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment Chef du Pont
The Memorial has opposite a Memorial Garden with a Plaque to Our friend, O. B. Hill, founder of the 508th PIR Association

Alexis Soyer
French-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books

Gourmet kitchen. early 19th century

Cupid with baking tray on a Valentine card
Cupid with baking tray and verse on a Valentine card with pull tab. Date: circa 1890s

Boy with an empty dish on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a fruit pie on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a roast turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887
Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle. The baron of beef was an annual institution at Windsor and was cut from the first prize fat bullock at the Shaw Farm Sale

Chiffa, Blida, Algeria - Chef feeds an Old Barbary Macaque
Chiffa, Blida, Algeria - a town and gorge in the Tell Atlas Mountains of northern Algeria. This gorge is one of the few habitat areas in Algeria that supports a sub-population of the Barbary Macaque

The school-room as it ought to be 1879
Young ladies being tutored by a French chef, with governess standing near by. Date: 1879

Chef Samples Soup Date: 1950

Pancake Scramble watched by Royal Family, Westminster School
In March 1919, the Royal Family went to Westminster School to see the famous scramble for the largest piece of the pancake tossed by the chef and to hand the winner a sovereign

The Nose Game - Commercial Nose E4, Denotes Shrewdness. Date: 1927

INVISIBLE SANDWICHES
These are surprise sandwiches... Anchovy Delight! They were obviously so delightful that they are all gone! Date: 1930s

Cartoon, Unpleasant Duties of Club Life. When the new French chef Victor Achille Petroly is summoned to receive a reprimand, the club members lose their appetite for complaining about the food

FRENCH PASTRY BOOK C17
Le Pastissier Francois: a famous cookery book featuring a plethora of pastry preparations. Date: 1665

ROOSEVELT ROASTS ENEMIES
Roosevelt roasts his political opponents Date: 1906

FRENCH PREPARE FROGS
Frenchmen prepare frogs for the table - and the head chef tastes a mouthful to make sure theyre properly done Date: 1815

Paris - The Kitchens of the Lycee Montaigne, a famous French public secondary school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s

Chef prepares a Peking Duck - floating restaurant, Hong Kong
A chef, stripped to the waist, prepares a Peking Duck in a floating restaurant kitchen on a sampan boat in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Date: 1982

Curry shop, Delhi, India
A chef squats by a huge cooking pot and cooks curry in an open air curry shop and restaurant in Old Delhi, India Date: 1987

Madame Fillioux - Lyon, France - The Queen of Chickens
Madame Fillioux (1865-?) working at her sons (D. Frechin) establishment where she appears to specialise in the sale of wine, asparagus and chickens! 73, Rue Duquesne, Lyon, France

Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA
A chef at work in the Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, specialising in lobsters, steaks, fish and chops broiled over the coals of the old forges. 1941

Cooking the Chefs Goose - A Christmas Fantasy, Leon Heron
A rather bizarre illustration showing two huge geese flying away from a chef ridden by Father Christmas, a policeman and a flapper girl! Date: 1929

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh in Malta, 1951
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) attending a dance given at the Hotel Phoenicia in Malta by Wardroom Mess of Naval Headquarters, Lascaris

Victorian 1890s Card Greetings White Ornate Lace
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Monkey pulling a cats tail on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chef with pudding on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Chef with roast turkey on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with roast turkey on a Christmas card -- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Date: circa 1890s

Cutout advertisement, Granola digestive biscuits
Cutout advertisement, Macfarlane Langs Granola digestive biscuits, with wheat field and windmill. Date: early 20th century

Chefs and buffet at Island Hotel, Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Three chefs standing behind a lavish buffet table at the Island Hotel, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Date: circa 1980s

Cadburys Happy Families - Master Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Flavour the Chefs Son. circa 1950

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Meat aspic
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Meat aspic. Miniature. Fol. 76 r

Cordon Bleu with its founder, Rosemary Hume
The Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970

The Lotus Club
New supper clubs in London - The Lotus. Series of photographs specially taken for The Sketch shows scenes at the Lotus club

Hungry Peter the pig cooks for a party, watched through the window by the naughty dogs Rags and Forager who are worried that they won t be invited. Date: 1914

Jean-Baptiste Paulin
JEAN BAPTISTE ALEXANDRE PAULIN French editor, publisher and author, fondateur et redacteur en chef of L Illustration. Date: 1793 - 1859

Group of people in ragtime fancy dress
A group of people in ragtime style fancy dress, including a cowboy on a mule, two policemen, men in drag, a pierrot, a chef, and a few blacked-up faces. Date: 1920s

Soyers Field Kitchen
The celebrated chef Alexis Soyer demonstrates his field kitchen for camp and bivouac in the Crimea, to Lord Rokeby and general Pelissier

Nicolas Appert / Figuier
NICOLAS APPERT French chef and inventor of the canning process

Victorian Scrap - army meat rations. late 19th century

Four cooks inside their work premises, USA
Four cooks inside their work premises, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Cadburys Happy Families - Mrs Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mrs Flavour the Chefs Wife. circa 1950

Cadburys Happy Families - Mr Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Flavour the Chef. circa 1950

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