Honey from a Weed

Full Title: Honey From A Weed : Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades and Apulia
Second Hand
Softcover
Author: Gray, P.
Published by: Prospect Books

Book Condition: Fine.
Very crisp, clean and bright inside and out with the exception of a little age toning to the edges of the textblock.
This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect Book’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 ‘he 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 Andre Simon Book Prize committee in 1987.
ISBN: 190301820x