Synopses & Reviews
This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospectand#8217;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, and#145;the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.and#8217; Jeremy Round called Patience Gray and#145;the high priestess of cookingand#8217;, whose book and#145;pushes the form of the cookery book as far as it can go.and#8217; Angela Carter remarked that and#145;it was less a cookery book that a summing-up of the genre of the late-modern British cookery book.and#8217; 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 Andrand#233; Simon Book Prize committee in 1987.
About the Author
The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel.and#160;