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Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed is a modern classic of the kitchen. Her Plats du Jour, published in 1957 by Penguin Books, was an important step in the re-education of British cooks after the Second World War. The book here published is the text of a full set of instructions which she provided in 1964 at the behest of the proprietors for the cooks of the Blue Funnel Line, an important Liverpool shipping line working mostly in Asian waters. The recipes which she so elegantly provides are redolent of Mediterranean and French cookery in the 1950s and 1960s and are a wonderful antidote to all the free-range fusion styles that seem current today. The whole is beautifully illustrated with 'mythical' paintings by the artist Miranda Gray: the theme is determined by Blue Funnel's custom of naming all their ships after Greek mythical figures.

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• Full title: The Centaur's Kitchen: A Book of French, Italian, Greek and Catalan Dishes for Blue Funnel Ships
• Author: Patience Gray, Miranda Gray
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 137
• EAN: 9781903018408
• ISBN: 1903018404
• ID: 12480044
• Publisher: PROSPECT BOOKS
• Weight: 547 g
• Dimensions: 257 × 180 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2006

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