Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing - Softcover

Luard, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552145440 ISBN 13: 9780552145442

Publisher: Transworld Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Food - meals eaten together in many different places and circumstances - is the common thread of this book whose underlying idea is that the family at the table is the source of its strength. The book recounts the Luard family's life in a cork-oak forest in southern Spain, a snow-bound farmhouse in Languedoc or a sheep-farm in Northamptonshire. Containing anecdote, humour and curious food-lore, this book is written by the author of "European Festival Food" and "The Barricaded Larder". Elizabeth Luard features in a TV series based upon her book "European Peasant Cookery".

About this title

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:

Unspeakably moving ... She deserves a medal -- Libby Purves * The Times * Writing with admirable courage, she contributes memorably to the literature of family life -- Elizabeth Buchan * Mail on Sunday * Some of the most poignant and moving writing this year * Daily Express * Books can be good, bad or patchy, but there are some that you will never forget. Elisabeth Luard's belongs in the last category -- Sue Gaisford * Independent * One of the most powerful accounts you will ever read of a mother's love for her child * Daily Mail *

About this edition

• Publisher: Transworld Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0552145440
• ISBN 13: 9780552145442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320