"A Feeling for Food began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them recipes of the food theyd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowley soon realised she was giving them another kind of nourishment that was all about who they were, where theyd come from and the adventures awaiting them. For behind every recipe theres a story about where Lis found it, who cooked it and why, and each story provides a thread linking a table of food in front of her with a table of food in the past made by other hands, or one on the far side of the world. From Great-Granny Nelsons relish to their uncle Pauls fluffy pancakes, from the bacon and egg pie that always goes on picnics to the bagels Lis ate in New York and the tarte Tatin in France that she simply had to learn to make, Lis asks Fred and Carlo and her other readers to pay attention as a way to discover their own food stories and fortify themselves body and soul in a big wide hungry world"--Back cover.