Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia - Couverture souple

Gray, Patience

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558215433 ISBN 13 : 9781558215436

Editeur : The Lyons Press, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Gray Patience

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. The author, Patience Gray, for 20 years shared her life with a sculptor, whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks took them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She wrote a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel.

Biographie de l'auteur

Patience Gray learned from the country people whose way of life she shared, adopting their methods of growing, cooking and con­serving the staple foods of the Mediterranean. She described the rustic foods and dishes with feeling and fidelity, writing from the inside and with a deep sense of the history and continuity of Mediterranean ways. Her life in the Salento contrasted with an earlier, and indeed glittering, career in Fleet Street, but she sacrificed the deadlines of the past to the rhythm of wine-making, seasonal sowing and gathering. Patience Gray s first book was Plats du Jour (with Primrose Boyd, published in 1957); she then wrote a cookery book for a shipping line, The Centaur's Kitchen (available from Prospect Books). She described her life on Naxos in Ringdoves and Snakes and her life and work in general in Work Adventures Childhood Dreams. Patience Gray died in 2005.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lyons Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558215433
• ISBN 13: 9781558215436
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 374
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible