I have dipped in and out of this book for years, but decided this weekend to do it all in one go. A great work of imagination, history, and culture. Not much for cooking here, I think, as I can't imagine making Pigs' Tongues with Pomegranate Sauce for any occasion. But lovely prose and very evocative. ( )

Perhaps the best of those cook books dealing with the life as well as the food. Gray's partner was a sculptor, so they move from quarry to quarry, learning about Mediterranean poverty and how it gives rise to certain types of cooking. Insightful and well-written. ( )

120. 1st ed. Superb commentary on traditional foodways of the Mediterranean Basin she inhabited. 'The weed from which I have drawn the honey is the traditional knowledge of the Mediterranean people...' ( )

Fasting and feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia.
A book I treasure. Bought at Waterperry, near Oxford ( )

http://www.markbernstein.org/Mar0601/HoneyfromaWeed.html ( )