The Author

Jane Grigson, who died in March 1990, grew up in the north-east of England during the depression and the Second World War. When she left Cambridge University in 1949, and went to Florence University for three months, she was dazzled by the light and colour, the vivacity of the markets and piquant goodness of the cheapest food, which was all she could afford. The following year Elizabeth David published her book on Mediterranean food: from that book she learned how to cook the things she had enjoyed eating and many more dishes of a part of the world she had come to love.