Antonin Carême, chef to Napoleon & George IV (9min)

The 19c pastry master and chef Antonin Carême was, from time to time, cook for Napoleon and Josephine, and for Britan's Prince Regent. He is remembered as the creator of such culinary standards as the vol-au-vent and the souffle, and his cookbooks standardized French cookery, but he began his life as a beggar on the streets of Paris. Ian Kelly performs a one-man play called Cooking For Kings in which he tells Carême's story while cooking Carême's recipes for the audience to taste. Kelly has also written the biography Cooking For Kings: The Life Of Antonin Carême, The First Celebrity Chef. (Clip starts at 36:15)