Honey from a Weed

Title: Honey from a Weed Author: Patience Gray ISBN: 9781903018200 Publisher: Prospect Books Published: 2001 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Cooking 1603424 Publisher Description: his book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect Book'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, 'the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.'; Jeremy Round called Patience Gray 'he 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