Synopses & Reviews
ELISABETH LUARD is an award-winning food writer, journalist, and broadcaster. She is the author of ten cookbooks, including The Latin American Kitchen, The Food of Spain and Portugal, A Cook's Year in a Welsh Kitchen; three volumes of memoir, Family Life, Still Life, and My Life as a Wife; and two novels. Her thirteen-part television series, The Rich Tradition, was broadcast on BBC2 and SBS Australia. She spent many years living in rural Spain, France, and Italy, and traveling across Europe collecting recipes, many of which are collected in The Old World Kitchen. Her work as a journalist appears regularly in The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, Country Living, Cambria Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is currently Trustee Director of The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, contributes a monthly column to The Oldie Magazine, and is a member of the team at online culinary magazine Zester Daily.
Synopsis
The best cookbook no one's ever heard of.
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MARK BITTMAN, former New York Times food columnist Through her eloquent writing and delicious recipes, Elizabeth Luard is able to bring us back in touch with the sources of real nourishment. This is a wonderful, inspiring and important book. --ALICE WATERS, founder and owner of Chez Panisse and the author of The Art of Simple Food
A classic on the essentials of European cooking
Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than twenty-five years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. This definitive collection of over three hundred time-tested recipes from twenty-five European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.
Synopsis
"The best cookbook no one's ever heard of."
--Mark Bittman, former New York Times food columnist "One of the great cookbooks of all time."
--The Mail on Sunday
A rediscovered classic cookbook on the essentials of authentic, back-to-basics European cuisine, with over 300 recipes from 25 countries across France, Spain, Greece, and more
Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than twenty-five years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. This definitive collection of over three hundred time-tested recipes from twenty-five European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.
Synopsis
"The best cookbook no one's ever heard of."
—MARK BITTMAN
"Through her eloquent writing and delicious recipes, Elizabeth Luard is able to bring us back in touch with the sources of real nourishment. This is a wonderful, inspiring and important book." —ALICE WATERS, founder and owner of Chez Panisse and the author of The Art of Simple Food
A classic on the essentials of European cooking
Award-winning food writer Elisabeth Luard joyously salutes the foundations of modern Western cooking with recipes collected during more than twenty-five years of travel and research, many of them spent living in rural France, Spain, Greece, Ireland, and Italy. This definitive collection of over three hundred time-tested recipes from twenty-five European countries is an indispensable guide to the simple, delicious, and surprisingly exotic dishes of peasant Europe.
About the Author
ELISABETH LUARD is an award-winning food writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten cook books, including
The Old World Kitchen,
The Latin American Kitchen and
The Food of Spain and Portugal, as well as two volumes of autobiography and two novels. Her thirteen-part TV series, The Rich Tradition, was broadcast on BBC2. She spent many years living in rural Spain, France and Italy, and traveling across Europe collecting recipes, many of which are collected
in The Old World Kitchen. She now lives in rural Wales.