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Family Life

Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

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An extraordinary and moving memoir of an unconventional, unforgettable family.

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1408831074

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9781408831076

My Life as a Wife

Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women

By: Elisabeth Luard

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My Life as a Wife

Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women

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_____________ 'Wonderfully wise and moving ... This is some woman; this is some life' - Scotsman 'A brilliantly funny yet moving memoir' - Daily Mail '[Luard] joins a line of inspiring cooks who write about the everyday necessity of food as the ultimate refuge from the harsh reality of death' - The Times _____________ Born in London during the Blitz, Elisabeth Luard – stepdaughter 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. As the pioneer of Britain's satire movement, Nicholas was intelligent, handsome and charismatic, yet he was also unreliable, a philanderer and very often only just ahead of the bank. Their life together may not always have been easy, but it was certainly never dull. Tracing the fascinating years they spent together in London to their years in Spain, France, the Hebrides and Wales with their four children, Luard's frank and bittersweet memoir takes us through the best and the worst of their marriage, and chronicles Nicholas's devastating descent into alcoholism. Yet this is also a story of hope as well as sadness - the healing power of children, the comfort and pleasure of good food and the simple joy of making life work. Both honest and tender, it is an account of a life shared and, above all, of a love story with flaws.

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1408836556

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9781408836552

Still Life

Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids

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Funny, uplifting and insightful, Still Life is memoir which explores new worlds through the kitchens, market places and traditions of the locals.

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1408831422

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9781408831427

Marguerite

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Marguerite

By: Elisabeth Luard

In the uphills of Provence stands the Hermitage, a private refuge for the Roman Catholic Church's most powerful miscreants. As Marguerite Dieudonne Leblanc and corrupt priest, Monsignor Charles Melton battle for control, her private life and his past leave the fate of the Hermitage in the balance.

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Severn House Pub Limited

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0727853430

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9780727853431

Seasonal European Dishes

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Seasonal European Dishes

By: Elisabeth Luard

From the award-winning food writer: “A fascinating collection of recipes and folklore that shows how the year used to be structured around feasts” (The Telegraph). From all over Europe—Scotland to the Mediterranean, 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. As well as being a unique and wonderfully readable cookbook, Seasonal European Dishes (previously published as European Festival Food) is written with the scrupulous attention to detail and authenticity that is the hallmark of Elisabeth Luard’s food writing. The recipes are peppered with hundreds of fascinating anecdotes and little known facts about local history and folklore. Starting with December, the book is organized according to the months of the year, and so it importantly also reminds us of the cycle of seasonality that is now once again regarded as the natural and much more enjoyable way to shop and eat.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1909808695

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9781909808690

My Life as a Wife

Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women

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European Peasant Cookery

By: Elisabeth Luard

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European Peasant Cookery

By: Elisabeth Luard

Recipes reflecting the rich traditions of twenty-five countries, passed down through generations. Peasant cookery offers healthy, real food—and is as relevant now as it was centuries ago. In this remarkable book, Elisabeth Luard sets out to record the principles of European cookery and to rediscover what has been lost in over-refinement. The recipes come from twenty-five countries, ranging from Ireland in the west to Romania in the east, Iceland in the north to Turkey in the south. This enormous compendium covers vegetable dishes; potato dishes; beans, lentils, polenta, and cornmeal; rice, pasta, and noodles; eggs, milk, and cheeses; fish, poultry, small game, pork, shepherd's meats; breads and yeast pastries; sweet dishes; preserves; and more. Filled with an authenticity rooted in Elisabeth Luard’s years of living and cooking in Europe, these recipes are peppered with hundreds of fascinating anecdotes and little known facts about local history and folklore.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1908117923

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9781908117922

Squirrel Pie (and other stories)

Adventures in Food Across the Globe

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Adventures in Food Across the Globe

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Sacrilegious to say it but Elizabeth Luard even beats Elizabeth David. Exquisite writing and wonderful food, and funny too' Prue Leith 'Elisabeth Luard proves that no matter where you are, there is food to be gathered, or hunted, or found. Squirrel Pie is a beautifully written tribute to food that has all but vanished from our everyday lives' Alice Waters Elisabeth Luard, one of the food world's most entertaining and evocative writers, has travelled extensively throughout her life, meeting fascinating people, observing different cultures and uncovering extraordinary ingredients in unusual places. In this enchanting food memoir, she shares tales and dishes gathered from her global ramblings. With refreshing honesty and warmth, she recounts anecdotes of the many places she has visited: scouring for snails in Crete, sampling exotic spices in Ethiopia and tasting pampered oysters in Tasmania. She describes encounters with a cellarer-in-chief and a mushroom-king, and explains why stress is good news for fruit and vegetables, and how to spot a truffle lurking under an oak tree. Divided into four landscapes – rivers, islands, deserts and forests – Elisabeth's stories are coupled with more than fifty authentic recipes, each one a reflection of its unique place of origin, including Boston bean-pot, Hawaiian poke, Cretan bouboutie, mung-bean roti, roasted buttered coffee beans, Anzac biscuits and Sardinian lemon macaroons. Illustrated with Elisabeth's own sketches, Squirrel Pie will appeal to anyone with a taste for travel, and an affinity for that most universal of languages, food.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408846098

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9781408846094

Squirrel Pie (and other stories)

Adventures in Food Across the Globe

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Adventures in Food Across the Globe

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408846098

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Still Life

Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids

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Funny, uplifting and insightful, Still Life is memoir which explores new worlds through the kitchens, market places and traditions of the locals.

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1408831422

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Family Life

Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

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Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

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1408831074

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The Flavours of Andalucia

By: Elisabeth Luard

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The Flavours of Andalucia

By: Elisabeth Luard

Capture the vibrant flavors of southern Spain with this award-winning cookbook featuring recipes from each of Andalucia’s 8 provinces. Acclaimed food writer Elisabeth Luard offers a personal, geographical and culinary tour of Andalucia in this beautifully illustrated cookbook. Along with mouthwatering recipes, Luard describes how the geography and history of the region have influenced its culinary traditions—and intriguing combination of hearty peasant fare and delicate seasonings that are a legacy of Moorish invasions. Each province draws on its own magnificent natural larder, and the recipes, such as hot gazpacho from Huelva, salt cod with potatoes and peppers from Jaén, pork and beans with chard from Seville and chickpea and wheat soup from Almería, reflect this diversity. Having lived in the area for several years, Luard interweaves personal memories with a wealth of cultural and historical information. The text is accompanied by the author's own watercolors of dishes and scenes of Andalucian life. Winner of the Glenfiddich Award for Best Food Book

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Casemate Publishers

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1911621629

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9781911621621

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

By: Elisabeth van Houts

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Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

By: Elisabeth van Houts

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

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280

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Oxford University Press

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0192519743

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9780192519740

Socialism and International Economic Order

By: Elisabeth L. Tamedly

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Socialism and International Economic Order

By: Elisabeth L. Tamedly

The theory of international economic order is concerned with two basically different types of human relationships: those that belong to the private sphere of the individual and which are amenable to the rule of law (the "dominium") and those that are backed by sovereign national power (the "imperium"). It is very important to know which fields of human activity are subject, within a given state, to imperium and which are left to the regulating influence of market values and private law.

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Ludwig von Mises Institute

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1610163400

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9781610163408

Still Life

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Still Life

By: Elisabeth Luard

Using material drawn from diaries and sketchbooks, this book follows Elisabeth Luard as she journeys through the kitchens of the peasant housewives of Eastern Europe. Luard asks such questions as: what exactly is it that makes us know who we are? The book is also interspersed with recipes.

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463

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0552145947

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9780552145947

Latin

A Culinary Journey of Discovery

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Latin

A Culinary Journey of Discovery

By: Elisabeth Luard

A collection of Latin dishes including appetizers, main courses, desserts and more.

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104

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1405495626

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9781405495622

Squirrel Pie (and Other Stories)

Adventures in Food Across the Globe

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Adventures in Food Across the Globe

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Elisabeth Luard is one of the culinary sphere's most entertaining voices. She has travelled extensively throughout her life, discovering extraordinary ingredients in unusual places, meeting fascinating people and exploring different cultures. Being a grandmother has certainly not quenched her thirst for adventure. Here, finally, is her enchanting food memoir, where she will share her intrepid adventures with you. Embark on an exhilarating journey through forests, river valleys, islands and deserts as Elisabeth takes you along the Romanian leg of the Danube river and to the blueberry barrens of Maine, to beach shacks in Hawaii and to the red earth of a Tuscan hillside." -- Publisher's description.

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1510038477

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9781510038479

Tapas

Classic Small Dishes from Spain

By: Elisabeth Luard

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Tapas

Classic Small Dishes from Spain

By: Elisabeth Luard

Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. Beautifully simple, tantalisingly 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.

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Grub Street Cookery

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1911667254

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9781911667254

Mediterranean Cookbook

Fresh, Fast, and Easy Recipes from Spain, Provence, and Tuscany to North Africa and the Middle East

By: Elisabeth Luard,Ghillie Basan

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Mediterranean Cookbook

Fresh, Fast, and Easy Recipes from Spain, Provence, and Tuscany to North Africa and the Middle East

By: Elisabeth Luard,Ghillie Basan

The Mediterranean Cookbook brings together authentic Mediterranean recipes from this increasingly popular food region, renowned for healthy, flavorsome food. Italian recipes, Greek recipes, and Middle Eastern recipes are in high demand, and so in this book, the flavors of regions such as Tuscany, Provence, Spain, and the Greek Islands mingle with those of Middle Eastern climes such as Morocco and Egypt. Mediterranean food stands for freshness and health, and this book collects over 200 healthy recipes from this part of the world. Recreate the sultry taverna or bustling bazaar in the comfort of your own home with the Mediterranean Cookbook.

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Penguin

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1465430105

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9781465430106

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