Elisabeth Luard

is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster whose work includes a 13-part tv series, The Rich Tradition, for SBS Australia and BBC2 UK. Her cookbooks include: European Peasant Cookery (1986 Bantam UK, The Old World Kitchen (US 1987, Grub Street Spring 2003), The Flavours of Andalucia (Glenfiddich UK winner, 1992), Sacred Food (MQP, winner Gourmet World Cookbook Awards 2001), The Latin American Kitchen (Kyle Cathie. 2002), The Food of Spain and Portugal (Kyle Cathie 2004), Food Adventures: Introducing your Child to Flavours around the World (Kyle Cathie 2006) - written with daughter-in-law Frances Boswell, Food director of Real Simple Magazine and Truffles (Frances Lincoln, 2006).

She has written an autobiography about her forty-year marriage to Nicholas Luard in My Life as a Wife (Timewell, Sept 2008). She has also written two autobiographies with recipes, Family Life (Bantam, Winner Guild of Food Writers UK 1996) and Still Life (Bantam 1998). She has published two novels, Emerald (WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award) and Marguerite (Bantam). She is currently a Contributing Editor to Waitrose Food Illustrated, has a monthly column in Richard Ingrams The Oldie Magazine. She reviews regularly in The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, The Jewish Chronicle and The Literary Review.