Elisabeth Luard (born 1942) née Longmore is a
food writer
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Definition
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, artist and broadcaster. She is Chair Emerita of the
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
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Overview
The Symposi ...
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She was born in 1942,
shortly before her father Richard Longmore was killed in action as
wing commander
Wing commander (Wg Cdr in the RAF, the IAF, and the PAF, WGCDR in the RNZAF and RAAF, formerly sometimes W/C in all services) is a senior commissioned rank in the British Royal Air Force and air forces of many countries which have historical ...
of
CXX squadron while engaging
U-539.
Her mother, Millicent Baron, remarried a diplomat who took her to his postings in Uruguay, Spain and Mexico. She worked at the satirical magazine ''
Private Eye
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'' where she met and married the proprietor,
Nicholas Luard
Nicholas Lamert Luard (26 June 1937 Hampstead, London – 25 May 2004 Kensington, London) was a writer and politician.
Background
He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was taught by F. ...
, in 1962. They had four children.
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Publications
* ''European Peasant Cookery: The Rich Tradition'' (1986)
* ''The Princess and the Pheasant and other recipes'' (1987)
* ''The Barricaded Larder: Food from the Storecupboards of Europe'' (1988)
* ''European Festival Food'' (1990)
* ''The Flavours of Andalucia'' (1991)
* ''Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing'' (1996)
* ''Still Life'' (1998)
* ''The Food of Spain and Portugal: A Regional Celebration'' (2004)
* ''Classic French Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the French Kitchen'' (2004)
* ''My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women'' (2008)
* ''Recipes & Ramblings'' (2010)
* ''A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse'' (2011)
* ''Seasonal European Dishes'' (2013)
* ''Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe'' (2016)
References
External links
Elisabeth Luard
– personal web site
Living people
British food writers
1941 births
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