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)
