Jeanne Strang (1929–2023) and her husband Paul moved from the UK to South-West France in the early 1960s and over the next 50 years Jeanne extensively researched the home cooking in the region, developing an incomparable knowledge of the area’s food and wines. Jeanne was also co-author of The Good Food Guide Dinner Party Book, The Good Food Cook’s Guide and Take 5000 Eggs: Food from the Markets and Fairs of Southern France.