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Chargement... Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Graypar Adam Federman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Adam Federman has made Patience Gray's relentlessly unconventional life and work in to a remarkably readable narrative in spite of having to repeat the chorus a lot. She is drawn sympathetically though not completely comprehensibly and the pretty certain knowledge that she would brutally snub one doesn't obscure the strong desire to bask in the intense heat of her favor. The book is probably longer than it needs to be and still almost 25% notes at the end. Her life and work are of interest, but after her 60s most of the lessons are repeats and lists with a few new names. ( ) What an interesting life, and a piece of food writing history that I wasn't aware of. Gray sounds like a real piece of work, and to Federman's credit he lets you read between the lines when it comes to her persona and never pushes an opinion. In a way that light touch makes this a flatter biography than it could have been, but I like the room for ambiguity around what kind of person she was as reflected by the truly hardcore lifestyle she and her partner adopted in the name of art and authenticity. She writes of "doing so may things a liberated woman should never do," yet her pursuit of her life's work—cooking, gardening/farming, writing about food, jewelry-making—was totally fierce and not in the least feminized. She's a cool character. The image of figs falling on the breakfast table from the overhead tree ("Those were the best figs I ever had," Harold McGee said) was wonderful. And I'm sorry, I do love the women's names here—Patience, Primrose, Amaryllis, and two copy editors (who worked for the same person at different times) named Candida Brazil and Indonea Muggeridge. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2017--Now in Paperback 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. 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 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. 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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