About the Author:
Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer whose work includes European Peasant Cookery (published in the US as The Old World Kitchen, a New York Times benchmark cookbook of the twentieth century), The Food of Spain and Portugal, European Festival Food, Sacred Food and The Latin American Kitchen. She has also written a couple of doorstopper novels including Emerald (WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award), and a trio of memoirs-with-recipes including Family Life (a Guild of Food Writers' Book of the Year), and was awarded the Glenfiddich Trophy for Foodwriting in 2007. She contributes regularly to national newspapers and magazines including The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Country Living and The Oldie and is currently Director of The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. She lives in west Wales.
Review:
Birth, death, life, nourishment, mystery, company: once again, it's all here -- Libby Purves * The Times * She is blessed, not only with good humour and perseverance, but a painter's eye for detail, and the cook's true under-standing of the place of food in a nation's culture and history * Frances Bissell * Luard writes like a greedy angel * Guardian * Elisabeth Luard is one of the greatest food writers of recent times -- Antony Worrall Thompson * Daily Express * Elisabeth Luard has inspired many great chefs -- Tom Parker Bowles * Daily Mail *
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