Autor/-in: Cora Millet-Robinet

Cora Millet Robinet: Born in 1978 in Paris, Cora went in the 1920s with her husband to live in a château in Poitou. The couple were agricultural reformers, and grew mulberry trees and wove silk. Cora wrote two books, the first on motherhood and her masterpiece, this volume, a rustic manual on housekeeping and farming. Tom Jaine was first an archivist, a restaurant owner, and then editor of the Good Food Guide and the Oxford Companion to Food. He was the publisher at Prospect Books from 1993 to 2014. He won the Glenfiddich Trophy as food writer in 2000, and the Derek Cooper Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.