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Federman, Adam, 1979-
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Gray, Patience.
Food writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
British -- Italy -- Biography.
Puglia (Italy) -- Biography.
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Federman, Adam, 1979-
Gray, Patience.
Food writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
British -- Italy -- Biography.
Puglia (Italy) -- Biography.
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Fasting
and
feasting
: the
life
of
visionary
food
writer
Patience
Gray
/ Adam Federman.
by
Federman, Adam, 1979-
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.
Call #:
641.5092 G781f
Subjects
Gray
,
Patience
.
Food
writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
British -- Italy -- Biography.
Puglia (Italy) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781603586085 (hc.)
Description:
371 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Beginnings -- Thomas
Gray
-- Edge of an abyss -- Hampstead -- Plats du jour -- The European scene -- Departures -- Beyond and away -- To work is to live -- Fin du monde -- A new
life
-- An image of wilderness -- Honey from a weed -- Discovering the Salento -- Reflections -- Things are sacred.
Summary:
For more than thirty years,
Patience
Gray
- author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed - lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own
food
, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated
life
she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great
food
writers of her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child. When
Gray
died in 2005, the BBC described her as an "almost forgotten culinary star." Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other
food
writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good
food
and regional cuisines. She wrote about what today we would call the Slow
Food
movement - from foraging to eating locally - long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. Imagine if Michael Pollan or Barbara Kingsolver had spent several decades living among Italian, Greek, and Catalan peasants, recording their recipes and the significance of
food
and
food
gathering to their way of
life
. Biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable
life
story of
Patience
Gray
: from her privileged and intellectual upbringing in England, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, and author, and describing her travels and culinary adventures in later years.
Patience
Gray
was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them.
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