Beautifully-produced and laden with gorgeous full page images, a compendium of mouth-watering recipes that pay tribute to a disappearing era At 95 years old, the lovely Dulcie May Booker shares her 76 best recipes and cooking tips in this handsome volume peppered with reminiscences and photographs of her life as dressmaker, market gardener, and homemaker extraordinaire. Compiled by Dulcie's granddaughter, talented "foodie" Natalie Oldfield, this cookbook will satisfy the current interest in traditional cookery in a personal way, by focusing on one woman's authentic, tried-and-true versions of everyone's favorite dishes. Many will be able to identify with Dulcie's story of a life filled with "labors of love" and sustained by land and sea?or recognize it as similar to that of their own "Gran." Containing easy-to-follow instructions on how to make Dulcie's excellent, classic fare?from hearty fisherman breakfasts to dance supper dainties, as well as Dulcie's secrets to award winning baking, cooking, and preserves?Gran's Kitchen is practical nostalgia. Continuing the home cooks' tradition of sharing recipes with each other, tucked in with Dulcie's recipes are favorites from family and friends, some old, some new.