Lilla's Feast: A True Story of Food, Love, and War in the Orient
by Osborne, Frances
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0345467000
- ISBN 13
- 9780345467003
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. xiv, 280 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Beneath its polished surface, Lilla's life had been anything but effortless. Born in 1882 to English parents in the beautiful North China port city of Chefoo, Lilla was an identical twin. Growing up, she knew both great privilege and deprivation, love and its absence. But the one constant was a deep appreciation for the power of food and place. From the noodles of Shanghai to the chutney of British India and the roasts of England, good food and sensuous surroundings, Lilla was raised to believe, could carry one a long way toward happiness. Her story is brimming with the stuff of good fiction: distant locales, an improvident marriage, an evil mother-in-law, a dramatic suicide, and two world wars. Lilla's remarkable cookbook, which she composed while on the brink of starvation, makes no mention of wartime rations, of rotten vegetables and donkey meat. In the world this magical food journal, now housed in the Imperial War Museum in London, everyone is warm and safe in their homes, and the pages are filled with cream puffs, butterscotch, and comforting soup. In its writing, Lilla was able to transform the darkest moments into scrumptious escape. Lilla's Feast is a rich evocation of a bygone world, the inspiring story of an ordinary woman who tackled the challenges life threw in her path with an extraordinary determination. / Frances Osborne is a former lawyer, stockbroker, and freelance journalist turned full-time writer. She lives in London with her husband, George Osborne, the youngest Member of Parliament, and her two young children." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
Synopsis
Frances Osborne is a former lawyer, stockbroker, and freelance journalist turned full-time writer. She lives in London with her husband, George Osborne, the youngest Member of Parliament, and her two young children. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Lilla's Feast: A True Story of Food, Love, and War in the Orient
- Author
- Osborne, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0345467000
- ISBN 13
- 9780345467003
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
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