Wolfing it
Angela Carter, 23 July 1987
Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
by Patience Gray.
Prospect, 374 pp., £17.50, November 1986,0 907325 30 0 Show More
by Patience Gray.
Prospect, 374 pp., £17.50, November 1986,
A Table in Provence: Classic Recipes from the South of France
collected and illustrated by Leslie Forbes.
Webb and Bower/Joseph, 160 pp., £12.95, April 1987,0 86350 130 3 Show More
collected and illustrated by Leslie Forbes.
Webb and Bower/Joseph, 160 pp., £12.95, April 1987,
The Joyce of Cooking: Food and Drink from James Joyce’s Dublin
by Alison Armstrong, foreword by Anthony Burgess.
Station Hill Press, 252 pp., $18.95, December 1986,0 930794 85 0 Show More
by Alison Armstrong, foreword by Anthony Burgess.
Station Hill Press, 252 pp., $18.95, December 1986,
“... among the coloured drawings as if there only to provide the excuse for the pictures. Whereas Alison Armstrong’s The Joyce of Cooking has elegant little decorations – fruits, nuts, tureens, bottles – and belongs to a bizarre sub-genre of the Late Modern cookery book, the cookery book as literary criticism. Subtitled ‘Food and Drink from ... ”
