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

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.
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Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

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.
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Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

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

by Patience Gray
Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

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

by Patience Gray

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781903018200
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Publication date: 03/03/2001
Edition description: REV
Pages: 375
Sales rank: 128,559
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author


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. 

Table of Contents

Introduction and Maps|Fire|Pots and Pans|My Kitchens|Chopping and Pounding|The Workplace|La Merenda|Fasting on Naxos|Beans, Peas and Rustic Soups|Cantarem la Vida|Potato and Egg Dishes|The Guardian of the Temple|Past'asciutta and Pasta in Brodo|Homage to a Classic Cook|Fish, Shellfish, Crustaceans; Smoked and Salt Fish|Apropos of a Salt Herring|Food Gathering|La Piazzetta|Vegetable Heritage|Castelpoggio|Edible Weeds|Fungi and Michelangelo|Assaulting the Language Barrier|Two Kinds of Spirit|La Polenta|Reflections in a Winter Landscape|Some Products of the Pig|Furred and Feathered Holocausts|Boar, Hare,Fox, Pheasant, Partridge, Pigeon|Feasting|Quail, Rabbit, Guinea Fowl, Turkey, Chicken|Looking for a Workplace|Calf, Cow, Ox, Horse, Buffalo|Prospero's Feast|Lamb and Kid|Pasticceria and the Apulian Baroque|A Few Sweets|An Apulian Bachelor|Preserves|The Olive Field|A Few Conserves|A Parting Salvo|Some Flower Buds, Leaves, Seeds, Pods, Fruits|Bibliography|List of Illustrations|Index
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