A Book of Mediterranean Food

had really read it. Her praise was unqualified, she had understood the reasons that had made me refuse, as she put it, ‘to make ...

for my own choice of gastronomic quotation, her final accolade was, ‘as further testimony to the unusual quality of this book, i ...

suffered from five years of wartime food and rationing and could barely remember what it had been like to have unlimited butter, ...

me next?’ On that occasion I was ready for him. I had a small collection of French recipes which hadn’t been suitable for the Me ...

had earned much prestige as a highbrow publisher his firm was losing money. The Bristol printers, Purnell’s, who had subsidized ...

successful. School books and Jane’s Fighting Ships were among their assets. As things turned out, Macdonald’s chose to retain on ...

realized, he said, that I might find the idea infra dig. – strange expression – but Penguin had approached the firm with an offe ...

At 10s. 6d. the hardback edition of the book seems and indeed was cheap enough by today’s standards but at the time was quite an ...

the efforts of Miss Eunice Frost, the only woman director of Penguin Books, strongly supported by Sir Allen Lane himself, that t ...

only two years ago that I think there is scarcely a single ingredient, however exotic, mentioned in this book which cannot be ob ...

occasionally Neapolitan mozzarella cheese, and honey from Mount Hymettus.’ How right Elizabeth Nicholas had been about ‘the igno ...

taken the risk of publishing the book in the first place, had no rights in the paperback – or indeed in any other edition: I res ...

or either of the subsequent ones which fell into their hands – is still reaping, via the paperback editions, the benefit of John ...

I am happy to say that although Macdonald’s, at the time of writing part of Captain Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire, gather i ...

Dorling Kindersley, the present hardback publishers. I am grateful to them, and hope that this new edition* of my very first boo ...

Table of Equivalent Gas and Electric Oven Temperatures Solid Fuel Electricity Gas Slow 240– 310 F. 115– 155 C. ¼–2 Moderate 320– ...

Very Hot 450– 480 F. 235– 250 C. 8–9 Table of Equivalent American Measurements English American ¼ lb butter or fat = approx ½ cu ...

½ lb caster sugar = approx 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons ¼ lb caster sugar = approx 8 tablespoons 2 oz caster sugar = approx 4 tables ...

¼ lb dry grated cheese = approx 1 cup ½ lb rice, raw = approx 1 cup LIQUID MEASUREMENTS English American 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 ...

oz = 2½ cups ½ pint = 10 oz = 1¼ cups ¼ pint = 5 oz = 1 gill = ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons 2 oz = 4 tablespoons = ¼ cup 1 tablespoo ...