South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David
"Elizabeth David's legacy cannot be underestimated. From the perspective of this decade, with its food scares and scandals, much of what she wrote decades ago can be seen as sounding a warning bell. This volume is a wonderful introduction. It is stocked with enough recipes to justify its place on the kitchen shelf alone. But the place to keep it is by the bed. A chapter or two will send you off into the most delicious dreams." --Clare Flowers, The Scotsman<br /><br />"Of all the food books published this year, the best read is South Wind through the Kitchen, an exhilarating anthology of Elizabeth David's finest pieces... Although there are recipes galore, it is the prose which lifts the heart." --Derek Cooper, Saga Magazine<br /><br />"The best food writer of her time." --Jane Grigson, The - London - Times Literary Supplement<br /><br />"There is not a dull word in these pages... The reader is struck once more by David's belief in simplicity, her loathing of the unnecessarily fancy. A complete newcomer to the kitchen could produce something delicious by following one of her recipes to the letter." --Paul Bailey, The Daily Telegraph