Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades and Apulia (paperback)

Transporting, mesmeric, fabulous, and maddening. In her forties, the English-born Gray upended her comfortable life as a successful cookbook author to follow the sculptor Bernard Mommens to the Mediterranean. In his quest for stone, they lived in remote areas of Greece, Italy, and Spain, and Gray committed herself to rural life, absorbing and recording a dizzying array of local culinary folkways. The book, published in the mid 1980s, is absolutely singular—reminisces of seasonal feasts and meeti...