#OTD in 1810, Alexis Benoît Soyer was born. He was arguably one of the first #CelebrityChefs.
Find out more about this dynamic #Chef on #EatMyGlobe:
https://www.eatmyglobe.com/escoffier
OR
http://traffic.libsyn.com/eatmyglobe/EMG_S2_E9_Escoffier_FINAL.mp3
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Even if you don’t know his name, the skills and methods of Georges Auguste Escoffier have impacted the kitchens of just about every restaurant in the West. His life was a complicated and sometimes dark one, but as the latest episode of the Eat My Globe podcast shows, his legacy lives on.