Elisabeth Luard lived in this Welsh Farmhouse for 20 years and she has now decided to sell her home. According to Telegraph, the 73-year-old celebrity chef and cookbook author decided to move to London, near her children and grandchildren.
Luard is selling the house for £680,000. The place features a modest kitchen with an electric cooker and ergonomical design. The house sits four squares to the winds from the Cambrians, which is on the lip of Tregaron Bog in far west Wales.
The magical farmhouse has stone walls and old slate floors. It has five bedrooms, a courtyard, a studio and gallery and 111 acres of land.
Luard has written at least a dozen cookbooks and the best known is titled "European Peasant Cookery." She also wrote food memoirs, which include "Love, Liquor and What To Do About the Other Women." During the 1960's, she married Private Eye Owner Nicholas Luard. They spent many years in Andalucia and had four children.
Luard is now the director of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. It is an event which is held at St. Catherine's College during summer and it is where academics, chefs and gastronomes gather to hear papers on subjects like ice and sorbets and making of surprise stuffing. Luard is also an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, and her most recent work as a food writer is titled "A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse" with photographs by Clare Richardson. The book was published in 2010.
According to her website, as of September 2014, Luard is working on a food travel memoir titled "Squirrel Pie and Other Stories." The book is set for publication in spring of 2016.
