Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603586083 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has written for the Nation magazine, the Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, Gastronomica, Petits Propos Culinaires, Earth Island Journal, Adirondack Life, and other publications. Adam Federman is a reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund of the Nation
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. For more than thirty years, Patience Grayauthor of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weedlived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. A fascinating and spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them.. 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 remarkableand until now untoldlife 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. Gray’s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about w
Yet she never quite banished the bourgeois within her. Aside from being a woman who stood on principle in an age when she was generally expected to behave herself, Gray is a captivating biographical subject and spokesperson for simple, slow living. A valuable resource on Gray’s early life and career as a journalist, the book, incorporating meticulous research, bears much fruit. That this slows the pace of the book is in keeping with Gray’s personal philosophy: speeding through conveniently is a poor substitute for taking tim