Download or read book A Book of Mediterranean Food written by Elizabeth David and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself --and her audience-- up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.