num_pages: 222
description: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.
language: English
title: A Book of Mediterranean Food
titlecomplete: A Book of Mediterranean Food
genres: Classics, Cookbooks, Travel, Ethnic, Reference, Food, Food and Drink, Food Writing, Cooking, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 388
places: Mediterranean Sea
publisher: NYRB Classics