Honey from a Weed

- Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

Af Pentiece Gray

Sprog:Engelsk

Denne bog er så fin og utrolig skrevet, med et sporg der får ens sanser til at sitre og lyst til at lave mad, boble. Jeg anvender ofte et citat fra denne bog i min tilgang til god mad og det fuldende måltid. “Good cooking is the result of a balance struck between frugality and liberality (..) Køb den og læs den igen og igen livet igennem - det vil jeg gøre. MH

"Within a few months of this book irst 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.