book mediterranean food book mediterranean food influential book written published years wartime book brought light colour english cooking simple fresh ingredients david experience mediterranean cooking living france italy greece book illustrated quotations famous writers time ingredients scarcely book quickly recognised years profoundly changed english cooking eating habits context returning postwar england food years living mediterranean wealth fresh ingredients found life grey food terrible flour water soup seasoned solely pepper bread beef hole need book partly earn money partly sun david began writing articles mediterranean efforts published british magazine harper outset david refused sell copyright articles able collect edit publication book form articles published assembled volume submitted series publishers turned explained collection unconnected recipes needed linking text david took advice conscious inexperience writer kept prose short quoted extensively established authors views mediterranean carry weight published volume sections linked substantial extracts works writers including submitted revised publisher associated poetry accepted agreeing advance payment book mediterranean food published suggested named blue train book supposed romance mediterranean countries found exciting train journeys reach book appeared food imposed second world war remained fully force britain david later essential ingredient good cooking adapted recipes learned years lived mediterranean countries lack flavour supplied meat stock butter historian food argues book mediterranean food david profoundly changed english cooking considers opening section contain evocative inspirational passage history british writing cooking mediterranean shores endowed natural resources colour flavour south blend tradition brilliant improvisation latin genius flashes kitchen honest cooking describes region gibraltar great barcelona genoa stretches influence mediterranean cooking naturally variations climate soil relative industry inhabitants recurring themes food countries oil local illustrations commissioned coloured dust jacket painting black white internal illustrations friend artist writers including commented drawings added attractions book david woman strong opinions thought good illustration important provided decorations feeling mediterranean simple illustrations dishes david recipes example port scene shows sailor drinking young woman table laden food background street restaurant boats harbour david like black white drawings described jacket design stunning especially taken beautiful mediterranean bay tables spread white bright fruit way pitchers bottles wine seen far street contents chapters cover turn eggs dishes fish meat substantial dishes game vegetables cold food jams preserves soup chapter sets pattern book short simple recipes soup beans brief interspersed long complex ones like mediterranean fish soup covers pages eggs dish section likewise simple detailed page consideration unlike writers books david rarely gives precise quantities fish chapter suggestion fresh cut thick like salmon oil butter adding half way cooking tomatoes handful cut small glass wine red white serve cooked potatoes meat section begins recipes generally unfamiliar english tables david gives recipes kid contrast served recent decades david gives recipes flavour taste like long highly seasoned substantial dishes chapter discusses illustrates merits deals familiar britain goes describe chapter game begins recipes cooking chicken duck goes greek style concluding cooked mushrooms mediterranean theme book emphasised section vegetables recipes potato dish anna dishes greece north_africa included typical southern french standards occasional non mediterranean dish included including fried olive oil cold food chapter gives instructions dishes cold chicken traditional non mediterranean recipe traditional easter dish david adds section suggestions including greek dishes unfamiliar britain including traditional french recipes section david comments mediterranean countries complicated bought recipes gives simple traditional home called pain cold orange jams preserves section includes preserved alongside familiar fruits final chapter david includes classics like advises stir steadily like adds turkish greek italian egyptian majority intended mediterranean fish dishes reception contemporary times literary supplement observed attempt champagne lemon mushrooms cook time explore london individual shops money observer commented book deserved familiar companion seek excitement kitchen modern celebrity cook comments book breath fresh air years followed second world war david excellent prepared ingredients english food best time food dull vegetables thoroughly olive oil bought chemist marked external use david hand evoked world sunshine fresh simple food beautifully prepared writing daily_mail notes publishers time thought book best absurd little food cook ingredients mediterranean lands olive oil nuts hardly found readers rely memory imagination enjoy david recipes recipes honest collected italy malta greece book acclaimed work years observes familiar home restaurants country writing guardian quotes chef knew david 1980s believing david powerful effect british question timing arrived scene right moment british middle classes exhausted longing precisely know taste sunshine writing independent calls book hymn longing cooking southern shores noting changed british middle classes ate olive oil stripped pine tables 1960s writing telegraph states book mediterranean food david introduced cooking greece italy return greece egypt india comments writer said bachelor printed alien word knew eat came like sunshine adds david personality food writers chef paving way general acclaim writing telegraph argues book reached small section population stating readers undergoing dramatic educated moderately wealthy women suddenly found servants cites observation introducing collection david writing elizabeth didn restore middle class women confidence cooking writing describes genesis book defining moment stranded hotel ross restaurant served meals dismal produced kind bleak triumph amounted hatred humanity humanity needs david felt famous sun furious food started draft descriptions mediterranean food led book mediterranean food writing new_york_times comments david showed importance book weary english barely buy eat enchanted descriptions meals included eggs butter tomatoes ingredients difficult impossible obtain foods taken granted today england olive oil unknown generally viewed suspicion david editions book appeared following editions including translations danish chinese
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