Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray (Paperback)
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by Adam Federman
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This is the paperback edition of Adam Federman’s impressive biography of the legendary author Patience Gray. The opening sentences of this long-overdue book make a compelling argument for its existence:
“Patience Gray’s Honey from a Weed is one of the most important and best-loved cookbooks of the twentieth century, yet its author remains little known beyond a small circle of food writers and critics. Such is the fate, perhaps, of a woman who lived for more than thirty years in a remote corner of southern Italy—without electricity, modern plumbing, or telephone—and liked to say, deliberately misquoting Gertrude Stein, that she wrote only for herself and friends.”
