Honey from a Weed by Patience Gray

Honey from a Weed by Patience Gray

This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect'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 'the 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.

Patience Gray wrote 'Honey from a Weed' on Italian cookery and her work has always been the intellectual acme of the cookery-book world. Although her output was tiny, her fame is infinite.Patience Gray died in 2005.

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ISBN 13	9781558215436
ISBN 10	1558215433
Title	Honey from a Weed
Author	Patience Gray
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Lyons Press
Year published	1997-03-31
Number of pages	384
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