Honey From A Weed Fasting And Feasting In Tuscany, The Cyclades And Apulia

Author: Patience Gray

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  • : $75.00 NZD
  • : 9781903018200
  • : Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd.
  • : Prospect Books
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  • : 0.71
  • : November 2001
  • : 260mm X 174mm X 28mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 54.0
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  • : Patience Gray
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : Corinna Sargood
  • : English
  • : 641.59/1822
  • : very good
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  • : 375
  • : WBN
  • : 100 b&w illustrations
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Barcode 9781903018200
9781903018200

Description

This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect's crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times that, 'the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.' Jeremy Round called Patience Gray 'the high priestess of cooking', whose book 'pushes the form of the cookery book as far as it can go.' Angela Carter remarked that 'it was less a cookery book that a summing-up of the genre of the late-modern British cookery book.' The work has attracted a cult following in the United States, where passages have been read out at great length on the radio; and it has been anthologized by Paul Levy in The Penguin Book of Food and Drink. It was given a special award by the André Simon Book Prize committee in 1987.

Author description

The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel."