Full name: Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia

Author: Patience Gray Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Cookbooks, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781903018200 190301820X

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. Similar books: Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel Chamberlain Tuscany by Lorenza de' Medici Culinaria Italy by Claudia Piras Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford Rice, Noodle, Fish by Matt Goulding Feasting on Asphalt by Alton Brown Pok Pok by Andy Ricker Beyond the Great Wall by Jeffrey Alford Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid Eating Rome by Elizabeth Minchilli The Prophets of Smoked Meat by Daniel Vaughn 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die by Mimi Sheraton The Whole Fromage by Kathe Lison Eating India by Chitrita Banerji Picnic in Provence by Elizabeth Bard Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson The Spice Necklace by Ann Vanderhoof My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss Serve the People by Jen Lin-Liu Mastering the Art of French Eating by Ann Mah