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Squirrel Pie (and other stories)

Adventures in Food Across the Globe

Elisabeth Luard

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing
24 August 2016
Elisabeth Luard, one of the food world's most entertaining and evocative writers, has travelled extensively throughout her life, meeting fascinating people, observing different cultures and uncovering extraordinary ingredients in unusual places. In this enchanting food memoir, she shares tales and dishes gathered from her global ramblings.

With refreshing honesty and warmth, she recounts anecdotes of the many places she has visited: scouring for snails in Crete, sampling exotic spices in Ethiopia and tasting pampered oysters in Tasmania. She describes encounters with a cellarer-in-chief and a mushroom-king, and explains why stress is good news for fruit and vegetables, and how to spot a truffle lurking under an oak tree.

Divided into four landscapes - rivers, islands, deserts and forests - Elisabeth's stories are coupled with more than fifty authentic recipes, each one a reflection of its unique place of origin, including Boston bean-pot, Hawaiian poke, Cretan bouboutie, mung-bean roti, roasted buttered coffee beans, Anzac biscuits and Sardinian lemon macaroons.

Illustrated with Elisabeth's own sketches, Squirrel Pie will appeal to anyone with a taste for travel, and an affinity for that most universal of languages, food.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   532g
ISBN:   9781408846100
ISBN 10:   1408846101
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer, journalist and broadcaster. 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

Reviews for Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe

A lovely book Kate Humble in Telegraph Magazine, on A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse


  • Short-listed for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2016
  • Shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2016.

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