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Lilla's Feast A True Story Of Food, Love, And War In The Orient

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by:
Osborne, Frances

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Product Details:

HC :

280 Pages

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

Pub. Date:

Sep 23, 2004

Our Part #:

06241

ISBN-10:

0345467000

ISBN-13:

9780345467003

Description:

Frances Osborne's great-grandmother Lilla lived to be a hundred, and so Frances knew her as an old woman, elegant, charming, and mysterious. In this vivid, sweeping narrative, Frances conjures up Lilla's incredible life. Born an identical twin in a British trading port in Chefoo, North China, in 1882, Lilla knew both great privilege and deprivation, love and its absence. Her story is brimming with the stuff of good fiction: exotic locales, improvident marriages, an evil mother-in-law, a dramatic suicide, two world wars, and, of course, international cuisine.

From the noodles of Shanghai to the chutney of British of British India to the roast of England, Lilla was brought up to believe that good food and sensuous surroundings could carry one a kong way to happiness. And in the absence of such, Lilla used her imagination. While held captive in the internment camp, she wrote a complete Mrs. Beeton-like cookbook, which is now in the Imperial War Museum of London and runs as a theme throughout this delicious book.

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