Fasting and Feasting

Fasting and Feasting
Author :
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781603588232
ISBN-13 : 160358823X
Rating : 4/5 (23X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fasting and Feasting by : Adam Federman

Download or read book Fasting and Feasting written by Adam Federman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 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. So it is not surprising that 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. Gray’s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Mediterranean diet and Slow Food—from foraging to eating locally—long before they 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. In Fasting and Feasting, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable—and until now untold—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. A fascinating and spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them.


Fasting and Feasting Related Books

Fasting and Feasting
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Adam Federman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-14 - Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For more than 30 years, Patience Gray—author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed—lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived
Fasting, Feasting
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Anita Desai
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-31 - Publisher: Random House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents
Feasting and Fasting in Opera
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Convivial beginnings. The symposium and the birth of opera ; The Renaissance banquet as multimedia art ; Orpheus at the cardinal's table ; Eating at the opera h
Feasting and Fasting
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Aaron S. Gross
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular
Fasting & Feasting
Language: en
Pages: 126
Authors: Erin Davis
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-06 - Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Does your relationship with food come as a constant source of regret, frustration, and shame? Or does it feel like a God-given blessing? Do you bounce between t