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Elisabeth Luard is a food writer, journalist and broadcaster, and in 2016 received the Guild of Food Writers' Lifetime Achievement Award. Her cookbooks include A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse, European Peasant Cookery and The Food of Spain and Portugal. She has written three memoirs, Family Life, Still Life and My Life as a Wife. She has a monthly column in the Oldie, is a Trustee of The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and writes in Country Living, the Telegraph, Country Life and the Daily Mail. elisabethluard.com / @elisabethluard
Elizabeth Luard’s prose is so colourful it transports you, and you can almost taste the food. You feel you’re right there with the people she meets, from Maine, to Crete, Maui to France * Delicious * A crucial element of any book like this is that you trust the person leading you. Luard passes the test completely * Daily Mail * A romp through Luard’s travels with food … She knows how to tell a story, thanks to a life rich with colourful anecdotes -- Xanthe Clay * Sunday Telegraph * Elisabeth Luard is the best living writer about the purpose, business, geography and anthropology of eating. Her Squirrel Pie eloquently, purposefully and honestly combines the how and the why of dinner -- AA Gill * Sunday Times * Elisabeth Luard has packed in more experience of roving, living and cooking than any other writer. Now she brings together a lifetime of sublime and bitter moments in a merry masterwork, beautifully illustrated by her own hand * The Times *
