Fact Check 2: The Lying Chef
Nov 17, 2024•32 min
Episode description
Larger-than-life French chef Alexis Soyer helped revolutionize British cuisine in the Victorian period — but his widely reported personal encounter with France's 1830 revolution is just a tall tale.
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