Honey from a Weed
Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
$70.01
- Paperback
375 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2001
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781903018200 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 190301820X |
| Author: | Patience Gray, Corinna Sargood |
| Publisher: | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Prospect Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 375 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 696g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 246mm x 173mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A cult cooking classic by ‘the high priestess of cooking’ Patience Gray, filled with unusual recipes, brilliant stories, and hyper-local ingredients and methodologies. Important reading to prepare for a future living well off the land, or just living well in general.”–Literary Hub
About The Author
Patience Gray
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.
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