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William Kitchiner

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Kitchiner was born in 1778, the son of a prosperous merchant. His father's legacy meant he did not have to work, but instead was able to live on his own means. Although claiming to have been educated at Eton and Glasgow, he attended neither institution, but the link to Glasgow enabled him to claim to
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His dinners were renowned and made him something of a celebrity within a certain circle. He was very important for that reason. Unlike most food writers of the time he cooked the food himself (though not alone), washed up afterward, and performed all the household tasks he wrote about. In his
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His love life was chequered: he married, separated, and had an illegitimate son, whom he acknowledged and funded. He surrounded himself with like-minded individuals, setting up a "committee of taste" which revolved around dinners, hosted by himself or held elsewhere.
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writings he extolled the virtues of a ''magazine of taste'', a "pyramidical epergne" which could also be made into a portable traveling case, and which contained 28 different ingredients including liqueurs, spice blends, and proprietary sauces.
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Unlike most food writers of the time he cooked the food himself, washed up afterwards, and performed all the household tasks he wrote about. He travelled around with his
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He died in 1827 of an apparent heart attack, the day before he was due to change his will to remove his son, whom he had decided no longer merited the legacy.
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recipes, including two each for mushroom, walnut and tomato ketchups, one each for cucumber, oyster, cockle and mussel ketchups, and also a recipe for
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The Cook's Oracle: Containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, etc.
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A. Constable & Company, Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, Cheapside. p. 208.
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A VERY large portrait from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
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The Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most ...
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The book contains what may be one of the earliest references to
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Dr William Kitchiner: the Cook's Oracle: Regency Eccentric
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S. Bagster. 1 January 1817 – via Google Books.
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be a medical doctor (M.D.), a claim no-one checked.
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St Clement Danes
crisp
optician
musician
celebrity chef
The Cook's Oracle
crisp
Wow-Wow sauce

Richard Martin
Martin's Bill in Operation
ketchup
Wow-Wow sauce
crisps
The Economy of The Eyes:
The Economy of The Eyes Part 2
Charles Dibdin
"Telescopes (part 1)"
"Did Tayto really invent cheese and onion crisps?"


"Crisps buoyed Britain in its darkest hour"
The Telegraph


The Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most ...
"The Magazine of Taste"

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