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Podcast: Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini
Episode: Episode 319: The Life of Patience Gray
Description: On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by writer Adam Federman, author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray. Federman tells the remarkable―and until now untold―life story of Patience Gray, author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed. Gray lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. Her influence, particularly among chefs and other food w...