Elisabeth Luard

Elisabeth Luard (born 1942) née Longmore is a food writer, artist and broadcaster. She is Chair Emerita of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

Elisabeth Luard
Elisabeth Luard at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in 2018
Born
Elisabeth Baron Longmore

1942
Marylebone
Education
Spouse
Nicholas Luard
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(m. 1962)​
Children4
Parent(s)Richard Longmore, Millicent Baron
Websiteelisabethluard.com/home

She was born in 1942,[1] shortly before her father Richard Longmore was killed in action as wing commander of CXX squadron while engaging U-539.[2] 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 where she met and married the proprietor, Nicholas Luard, in 1962. They had four children.[3][4][2][5][6]

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
  1. McCarthy, James (1 August 2015). "Take a tour inside gorgeous Brynmeheryn". walesonline. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  2. McCarthy, James (1 August 2015), "Food writer Elisabeth Luard is selling up and leaving her amazing home 'before I fall and the cat eats me'", Wales Online, retrieved 15 March 2020
  3. Barber, Lynn (13 September 2008), "Review: My Life as a Wife by Elisabeth Luard", Daily Telegraph, retrieved 15 March 2020
  4. Luard, Elisabeth (2018), Elisabeth Luard, retrieved 15 March 2020
  5. Moreton, Cole (18 January 1998), "Death of a daughter inspires two books", The Sunday Independent, retrieved 15 March 2020
  6. Moss, Stephen (11 September 2008), "How to stay married for 40 years", The Guardian, retrieved 15 March 2020


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