Carême: the first celebrity chef

Feast for Epicures

Pastry Boy

Breakfast at Talleyrand's

Gastronomy: a cult in want of a priest

Chateau Valencay: a year in the Loire

Napoleon's wedding cake

Russians in Paris

Cook, his book, his wife and his lover

Brighton Pavilion

Viennoiserie

Winter Palace

'Right good judges and right good stuffers'

Chateau Rothschild

Last Orders

Epilogue

Recipes.