Charles Elmé Francatelli

Portrait of Charles Elmé Francatelli

Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805-10 August 1876), Anglo-Italian cook, was born in London, of Italian extraction, in 1805, and was educated in France, where he studied the art of cookery. Coming to England, he was employed successively by various noblemen, subsequently becoming manager of Crockfords club. He left Crockfords to become chief cook to Queen Victoria, and afterwards he was chef at the Reform Club. He was the author of The Modern Cook (1845); of A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852), "The Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant" (1861) and of The Royal English and Foreign Confectionery Book (1862). Francatelli died at Eastbourne. A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes was reprinted by Pryor Publications in 1993, complete with the original advertisements and introduction, and has been reprinted almost every year since. ISBN 0-946014-15-9

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Online version of Francatelli's The Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant

• Online version of Francatelli`s The Cook`s Guide and Housekeeper`s & Butler`s Assistant

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Name	Francatelli, Charles Elme
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Date of birth	1805
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Date of death	1876
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