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 Mac Carthy 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.
Prospect Books (uk) Honey from a weed: fasting and feasting in tuscany, catalonia, the cyclades and apulia, paperback/patience gray
