Winner of the Glenfiddich Award for outstanding food writing, Elisabeth Luard has a string of prizes for her unique, intelligent and engaging prose, not to mention her recipes. Highlighted by food critics and writers internationally as the new Elizabeth David, Elisabeth has published more than a dozen cookbooks including European Peasant Cookery, The Old World Kitchen, Classic French Cooking, Classic Spanish Cooking and Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment for which she won the coveted Gourmand World Cook Book Award. She is a regular contributor to Country Living and Waitrose Food Illustrated.