num_pages: 375
description: 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.
language: English
title: Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
titlecomplete: Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
genres: Foodie, History, Cooking, Cookbooks, Memoir, Italy, Food Writing, Travel, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 367
places: Puglia (Italy), Apulia, Catalonia, Cyclades, Tuscany
publisher: Prospect Books