Lilla's Feast : A true story of love, war and a passion for food

Frances Osborne

"Lilla Eckford was born in 1882 into a British colonial family in the small Chinese trading port of Chefoo. Her mother, Alice, was a lively woman with a love of cooking she passed on to her identical twin daughters. Lilla vied constantly with her sister, and seeing her fall in love with a naval captain ...