Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
A Curious Absence of Chickens : A journal of life, food and recipes from Puglia - Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award, Paperback / softback Book

A Curious Absence of Chickens : A journal of life, food and recipes from Puglia - Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

'Sophie Grigson has written twenty odd excellent cookbooks, but I think this is the best of them.

It is her first book for a decade and was obviously driven by a real love of her subjects, which are Puglia, people and food.

It is witty, informative, fascinating and stuffed full of recipes you want to cook.' Prue Leith'Puglia is a region I wanted to get to know intimately, to understand culture, life, history and geography, reflecting through the prism of the food that's put on the tables of locals and tourists, too.

I'm reminded of my 20-year old self, scribbling in notebooks as I first travelled through Italy's south, only this time I'm back to stay.'After her children grew up and left home, Sophie Grigson found herself living alone.

About to turn 60, she took the decision to sell or give away most of her belongings, to pack up her car and to drive to Puglia on her own to start a new life.

In a part of Italy where she didn't know anyone, having last visited the region 40 years ago, this narrative book of food writing, stories and recipes brings to life the region, its food and the local characters that she meets along the way.

This is a book about courage, hope, new horizons and, above all, delicious food. 'Vivid, humorous and unsentimental, Sophie's portrait of modern Puglia, still seeped in old ways, is a delicious treat' Xanthe Clay'OMFG!

This beautiful book is transporting me there. I can't put it down. And the lack of chickens...I never bloody noticed!' Matt Tebbutt

Information

Other Formats

Save 4%

£12.99

£12.35

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information