Lilla's Feast: A True Story of Love, War, and a Passion for Food by Frances Osborne

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the Second World War after an extraordinary early life, passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food. This precious cookery book, now in the possession of the Imperial War Museum, inspired Lilla's great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, to investigate her enthralling story.

Lilla's Feast spans the world from China to India and finally to England over a hundred years, and blends together personal history, world events, period atmosphere and family anecdotes into a brilliantly vibrant and poignant story. (back cover)