Lucie Peyraud

Lucie "Lulu" Peyraud (11 December 1917 – 7 October 2020) was a French winemaker and cook.

Biography Lucie Tempier was born in Marseille to a family of traders in December 1917. Her father, Alphonse Tempier was a leather importer and owner of the Domaine Tempier vineyard and her mother was Eugénie Raybaud.

In 1940, Tempier and her husband, Lucien Peyraud, took charge of a Tempier family farming and wine estate in Le Castellet (Var).

Despite being the mother of seven children, Lulu Peyraud acted as an ambassador of the wines of Domaine Tempier, often traveling throughout France to present the estate's wines to restaurants and hotels.

Lucie and Lucien repeatedly offered the Tempier Vineyard for the annual Young Cinematography International Meetings (Rencontres Internationales du Jeune Cinéma) in Hyères (1965–1983), as a place for meetings and exchanges for actors and young filmmakers who came to present their films at the festival. In 1983, Lulu participated in the creation of the "Order of the Ladies of the Wine and the Table" (Ordre des Dames du Vin et de la Table), and was its vice-president for three years

Peyraud's typical Provençal recipes earned her a reputation on the other side of the Atlantic amongst well known personalities, such as restaurateur and activist of the "Slow Food" movement, Alice Waters, food critic and writer Richard Olney, writer Jim Harrison, and wine merchant Kermit Lynch.

Richard Olney dedicated an entire book to her cooking in 1994, called "Lulu's Provencal Table: The Exuberant Food and Wine from the Domaine Tempier Vineyard."

Marriage She met her husband Lucien Peyraud, a viticulturalist, in 1935 whom she met while he was on holiday in Sanary-sur-Mer. They would marry in 1936. Lucien died in 1996.