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Of Pageants and Picnics

Elizabeth David was perhaps the most influential postwar cookery writer in Britain, championing good ingredients cooked simply and unpretentiously.

Elizabeth David - Book Cover

About the Book

Published:

2005

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Synopsis

Full contents:

  • Foreword / April Boyes

  • Picnics

  • Eating out in provincial France

  • The markets of France

  • Italian fish markets

  • Summer holidays

  • A la marinieÌ€re

  • Improvised cooking for holidays and weekends.

Notes:

Extracts from Summer cooking, 1965; An omelette and a glass of wine, 1986; South wind through the kitchen, 1998.

© 2025 Elizabeth David Estate

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