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Early life Arabella Boxer, maiden name Arabella Stuart, was born in 1934, in Scotland, the third daughter of the 17th Earl of Moray and his American wife, Barbara. They lived in Moray, in the north of Scotland; after her father's death in 1943, the family moved to London where she has lived ever since. She was educated privately, with a French governess, till she was 13 when she went to boarding school, Hatherop Castle, in Glos. Once the war was over, she went every summer to stay with her American grandparents in New York and Maine. She left school at 16 and lived in Paris for a year, living with a French family and following courses at Mlle. Anita' s. The following winter she lived  for three months in Rome, studying history of art. In 1942 she went to the Central School of Art for one year, learning to be a potter. Two years later she spent six months in the U.S., working in Bonwit Teller in New York, and travelling across the States in a greyhound bus. Professional Life In 1956, aged 22, she married Mark Boxer, who later became well known as an editor and cartoonist, and who encouraged her to start writing about food. Her first book, First Slice Your Cookbook, designed by her husband, and published in 1964, was a best seller. In 1965 she started writing for Vogue which she did for 19 years. For most of that time she worked in partnership with the photographer Tessa Traeger. During those years she travelled extensively, in Europe, north America, the Middle East, North Africa, India, China and Japan. She also wrote 14 books, including First Slice Your Cookbok, A Second Slice, Arabella Boxer's Garden Cookbook, Mediterranean Cokbook, The Sunday Times Cookbook, The Hamlyn Herb Book, The Hamlyn Spice Book, Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food, and, with Tessa Traeger, A Visual Feast. She was a Founder member of the Guild of Food Writers, and was Vice-President for a time. She was awarded the Glenfiddich Award for Food Writer of the year in 1975 and 1978, also a special (life time) Glenfiddich Award for food writing  in 1992. In 1992 she also won the Andre Simon Award and the Michael Smith/Macallen Award for fòod writing. The Boxers had two children, and the marriage was dissolved in 1980. Arabella Boxer now lives in London.