New York Review Books Classics: A Book of Mediterranean Food (Paperback)

from hhornblower

I had never heard of Ms. David until I read "Something to Declare" by Julian Barnes, one of the collected essays is about her and her recipes. She comes off as a British Julia Child. Many of the cookbooks I have contain brief essays about the culture and history of specific region of the applicab...

from SeriousGrace

When I first picked up Mediterranean Cooking I was trying to decide if Elizabeth David truly expected the everyday housewife to cook from this book. The magic of her writing is that her methods as far as cooking is concerned are unconventional and languid. Who else measures their olive oil by the...

from franhigg

This has been one of my favourite books for almost as long as I can remember. My mother was given it when food rationing in Britain was still a very recent memory, and so for a new widow with two boys this was probably the most impractical recipe book that it was possible to obtain, including as ...

from mcglothlen

Oh, come on. This is one of the best cook books ever. I don't need to tell you why. Just go get it now.

from franhigg

This has been one of my favourite books for almost as long as I can remember. My mother was given it when food rationing in Britain was still a very recent memory, and so for a new widow with two boys this was probably the most impractical recipe book that it was possible to obtain, including as ...