THE COOKTIONARY 's Author
Gee Greville was brought up in the middle of England just after the Second War. She went to a friendly girls' boarding school in the New Forest and spent every summer with her father in the South of France. After being a reluctant 'deb', she spent a year in Paris before taking up life as a secretary in London. Gee moved, with her retired doctor husband, from Hereford to Northern France in 1993.
Once installed in their Picardy farmhouse,
they set about the role of entertaining - always a favourite pastime. Now, however, there were new challenges: recipes in a foreign language & French guests around the dining table!
Culinary words and entertaining phrases often had to be found in a hurry, so Gee would jot them down in a notebook on the kitchen table for easy reference. The notebook grew - and formed the basis of THE COOKTIONARY . With its birth, culinary words became almost as important as the food itself - in at least one Anglo-French kitchen!
AND THE ILLUSTRATOR
Michael Logan 's interest in art began at primary school. His interest in French cooking developed while working for many years in North Borneo.
Now retired & living in Lincolnshire, Michael still paints but his main artistic interests are drawing & printmaking. He has regularly attended Lincoln College of Art and frequent trips across the Channel have fostered his love of France, its people & its cuisine.
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