Книга: Elizabeth David «An Omelette and a Glass of Wine»

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

In thirty five years of writing about food and cookery I have contributed articles to a very various collection of publications. From the Sunday Times to Nova, from Vogue to the Spectator, from the long defunct travel magazine Go to Cyril Ray's Compleat Imbiber, Peter Dominic's Wine Mine and quite a few others, I have put together the present volume. The bulk of the articles included were written during the decade between 1955 when I joined the Sunday Times as cookery contributor and 1965 when I launched my kitchen shop. For several of those years I was contributing a monthly article apiece to Vogue and House and Garden as well as a fortnightly one to the Sunday Times, and in 1960 had published French Provincial Cooking. In 1961, freed from the Sunday Times and the monthly stints for the Conde Nast magazines, I worked for a time for the moribund Sunday Dispatch and wrote my first contribution for the Spectator and, unexpectedly perhaps, thoroughly enjoyed writing for both...

Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2014)

Формат: 135x215, 320 стр.

ISBN: 978-1-405-91831-2

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Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David CBE (26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a pre-eminent British cookery writer of the mid 20th century.

David is considered responsible for bringing French and Italian cooking into the British home (along with now ubiquitous items such as olive oil and the courgette). In a Britain worn down by post-war rationing and dull food, she celebrated the regional and rural dishes of the Mediterranean rather than the fussier food of the gourmands and aristocrats. David's style is characterised by terse descriptions of the recipes themselves, accompanied by detailed descriptions of their context and historical background, and often laced with anecdotal asides. She was often scathing of bad food, including much of the food of England that she and her readers had grown up with.

Early life

Born Elizabeth Gwynne, she was of mixed English and Irish ancestry [Her father and uncle Roland falsely claimed they were from Welsh stock. They were really from County Antrim, Ireland. See: Cullen, 2006] , and came from a rather grand background, growing up in the 17th century Sussex manor house, Wootton Manor. Her parents were Rupert Gwynne, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, and the Hon. Stella Ridley who came from a distinguished Northumberland family, who had three other daughters. Her uncle, Roland Gwynne, later became Mayor of Eastbourne and may have been a lover of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. [Cullen, 2006]

She studied at the Sorbonne, living with a French family for two years, which led to her love of France and of food. At the age of 19, she was given her first cookery book, "The Gentle Art of Cookery" by Hilda Leyel, who wrote of her love with the food of the East. "If I had been given a standard Mrs Beeton instead of Mrs Leyel's wonderful recipes," she said, "I would probably never have learned to cook."

Gwynne had an adventurous early life, leaving home to become an actress. She left England in 1939, when she was twenty-five, and bought a boat with her married lover Charles Gibson-Cowan intending to travel around the Mediterranean. The onset of World War II interrupted this plan, and they had to flee the German occupation of France. They left Antibes for Corsica and then on to Italy where the boat was impounded; they arrived on the day Italy declared war on Britain. Eventually deported to Greece, living on the Greek island of Syros for a period, Gwynne learnt about Greek food and spent time with high bohemians such as Lawrence Durrell. When the Germans invaded Greece they fleed to Crete where they were rescued by the British and evacuated to Egypt, where she lived firstly in Alexandria and later in Cairo. There Gwynne started work for the Ministry of Information, split from Gibson-Cowan, and eventually took on a marriage of convenience to Lieutenant-Colonel Tony David; this gave her a measure of respectability but David was a man whom she did not ultimately respect, and their relationship ended soon after an eight month posting in India. She had many lovers in ensuing years.

Cooking

On her return to London in 1946, David began to write articles on cooking and in 1949 the publisher John Lehmann offered her a £100 advance for "Mediterranean Food", the start of a dazzling writing career. David spent eight months researching Italian food in Venice, Tuscany and Capri. This resulted in "Italian Food" in 1954, with illustrations by Renato Guttuso, which was famously described by Evelyn Waugh in "The Sunday Times" as one of the two books which had given him the most pleasure that year.

Many of the ingredients were unknown in England when the books were first published, and David had to suggest looking for olive oil in pharmacies where it was sold for treating earache. Within a decade, ingredients such as aubergines, saffron and pasta began to appear in shops, thanks in no small part to David's books. David gained fame, respect and high status and advised many chefs and companies. In November 1965, she opened her own shop devoted to cookery in Pimlico, London. She wrote articles for "Vogue" magazine, one of the first in the genre of food-travel.

In 1963, when she was 49, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, possibly related to her heavy drinking. Although she recovered, it affected her sense of taste and her libido.

Awards

David won the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year award for "English Bread and Yeast Cookery". She was also awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Essex and Bristol, and the award of a [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mérite_agricole Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Agricole] . However, the honour that most pleased her was being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982 in recognition of her skills as a writer. In 1986 she was awarded a CBE.

She died in 1992 at her Chelsea home, where she had lived for forty years.

In popular culture

* " [http://imdb.com/title/tt0762094/ Elizabeth David: A Life In Recipes] ", 2006 BBC made-for-television film starring Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth David and Greg Wise as Peter Higgins.

Books

*"Mediterranean Food", decorated by John Minton, published by John Lehmann (1950)
*"French Country Cooking", decorated by John Minton, published by John Lehmann (1951)
*"Italian Food" (1954)
*"Summer Cooking", published by Museum Press (1955)
*"French Provincial Cooking" (1960)
*"Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen" (1970)
*"An Omelette and a Glass of Wine" (1984)
*"English Bread and Yeast Cookery" (1977)
*"Harvest of the Cold Months" (1994)
*"South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David" (1998) (Editor Jill Norman), posthumous anthology
*"Is There a Nutmeg in the House?": Essays on Practical Cooking with More Than 150 Recipes", a posthumous anthology edited by Jill Norman (2000)
*"Elizabeth David's Christmas" (2003) (Editor Jill Norman), posthumously produced from David's notes
*"Elizabeth David Classics" ( "Mediterranean Food, French Country Cooking, Summer Cooking." )
preface by James Beard Knopf (1980) ISBN 0-394-49153-X

References

*Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
*"Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David" by Artemis Cooper
*" Elizabeth David: A Biography" by Lisa Chaney

Her papers are at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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