Honey from a Weed: Fasting and feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

Winner of a special special award by the Andre Simon Book Prize committee in 1987 This book is perhaps the jewel in the Prospect Books' 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.' Angela Carter remarked that 'it was less a cookery book that a summing-up of the genre of the late-modern British cookery b...