Fasting and feasting
Subtitle: the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
By: Adam Federman
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781603586085
Subjects: Food writers; Biography
Description: For more than thirty years, Patience Gray, author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed, lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the BBC described her as an "almost forgotten culinary star." Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Thomas Gray; title: Edge of an abyss; title: Hampstead; title: Plats du jour; title: The European scene; title: Departures; title: Beyond and away; title: To work is to live; title: Fin du monde; title: A new life; title: An image of wilderness; title: Honey from a weed; title: Discovering the Salento; title: Reflections; title: Things are sacred.