Product Description: The ultimate locavore guide--an engaging food memoir of foraging from forest, field, and stream, from the Andes to the Arctic--with recipes and illustrations.Award-winning writer and journalist Elisabeth Luard is one of the most knowledgeable foragers on the planet, as well as one of the foodie sphere’s most entertaining voices...read more

Product Description: The Hamlyn Classic Recipes series is a celebratory collection of some of the most admired chefs the world has to offer - noteworthy not only for their pioneering approach to food, but also for their dependable, uncomplicated and trustworthy recipes...read more

Product Description: Born in London during the Blitz, Elisabeth Luard – step-daughter of a British diplomat and reluctant debutante in her teens - was working as an office typist at Private Eye when she fell for the 'King of Satire' Nicholas Luard. At just twenty-one years old, she married him...read more

Product Description: Not everyone keeps an eagle owl in the spare bedroom cupboard, plays chess for the French Foreign Legion, or goes to school on an obstinate donkey. But this was all just a day in the life of the four Luard children. For the Luards, growing up as their family travelled across Europe, life was a series of adventures...read more

"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 cookingAward-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.

Product Description: Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. Beautifully simple, tantalizingly delicious and easy to prepare, they are perfect for all kinds of occasions.The recipes and suggestions in this book demonstrate how simple ingredients can be quickly transformed into mini feasts designed to delight the senses...read more

Product Description: From all over Europe from Scotland to the Mediterranean, from Hungary to Cornwall, Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional feasts and festivals, many of which she has experienced first hand, and hundreds of recipes for the dishes appropriate to them...read more

Product Description: Since the earliest times the people of Europe have gathered together, either as families or as whole communities, to celebrate their traditional festivals - their high days and holidays, their harvests, their births, weddings and funerals...read more

This collection contains over 500 recipes from 25 countries, ranging from Ireland in the west to Romania in the east, Iceland in the north to Turkey in the south. It covers all sorts of dishes from sweets and breads to filling main courses, and includes details of local history and folklore.

Product Description: A unique and inspirational cookery book that covers both Spain and Portugal and their huge variety of flavors, tastes and styles of cooking. Using ingredients such as fresh-water fish, mountain thyme, luscious cheeses and olives, an array of fresh fruit and vegetables, cured and fresh meats, these recipes embrace the virtues of a lifestyle that takes account of what nature has to offer...read more

A guide on how to introduce very young children to a variety of international cuisines makes recommendations for appealing to reluctant young appetites, includes recipes for preparing a variety of dishes with readily available ingredients, and offers suggestions on reducing table conflicts. Original.

Product Description: 106 diverse recipes come together in this collection of classic Spanish recipes for novice and expert cooks alike. Using only the freshest ingredients, the author explores the techniques necessary for handling all kinds of traditional Spanish dishes...read more

Illustrated throughout with the author's own line drawings, this is a French cooking book.

Product Description: "Classic French Cooking is a collection of iconic recipes that are the base from which all other French cooking derives. Luard is very conscious that classical French cuisine can be complicated and lengthy on method and that most home cooks do not have endless hours to prepare family meals, nor are they always willing to give over an entire day to cook for a dinner party...read more

Product Description: Celebrating the power of food to nourish souls and its vital part in religious ceremonies and secular celebrations, this cookbook offers insights into food that go far beyond recipes. It explores the dishes that are traditionally served at significant moments in human life—birth, puberty, courtship, betrothal and marriage, death, burial, and remembrance—and explains why and how we celebrate with food...read more

A collection of authentic Latin American recipes for dishes from regions ranging from northern Mexico to southern Argentina includes both old favorites and little-known regional specialties that showcase eighty-four key ingredients.

Product Description: Another romantic and glamorous tale from the author of Emerald.

Product Description: A "marvelous 'what if' novel"(THE BOOKSELLER) about the daughter abandoned by the Duke of Windsor. Winner of the W. H. Smith "Thumping Good Read" Award.