Family Life : Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

Physical description: x, 307p : ill ; 25cm. Notes: Includes index. Summary: 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". Subjects: Luard, Elisabeth. Food writers - Great Britain - Biography. Families. Cookery. Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military. Genre: Biography. Illustrated text.