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A Book of Mediterranean Food

By Elizabeth David
Foreword by Clarissa Dickson Wright

By Elizabeth David
Foreword by Clarissa Dickson Wright

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Apr 30, 2002 | ISBN 9781590170038

A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
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About A Book of Mediterranean Food

Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David’s passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself –and her audience– up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.

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About Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was brought up in an outwardly idyllic seventeenth-century Sussex farmhouse, Wootton Manor, and her interest in cooking may well have been a response to the less-than-stellar meals on offer there. During World War II she lived in… More about Elizabeth David

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Category: International Cuisine | Cooking Methods

Paperback | $17.95
Published by NYRB Classics
Apr 30, 2002 | 222 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781590170038

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