GEE GREVILLE

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
summer holidays 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 and 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 ILLUSTRATORS

MICHAEL LOGAN

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, Michael still paints but his main artistic interests are drawing and printmaking.  He attended Lincoln College of Art and frequent trips across

the Channel have fostered his love of France, its people and its cuisine.

REBECCA KEEBLE

A natural choice to illustrate THE COOKTIONARY FOR KIDS,

Rebecca is Gee’s artistic, fast growing-up step-granddaughter.

A sense of fun and many trips to France were just the right ingredients
to give a light-hearted touch to this out-of-school dictionary.