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    A Friend with a Heart-Shaped Leaf

    by Patience Gray Sep 12, 2017 1 minute
    Patience Gray - Illustrated letter

    Courtesy of Nicolas Gray.

    Patience Gray, the most important food writer you’ve never heard of, spent more than thirty years living in a remote corner of Southern, is one of the most beloved of the twentieth century, yet little was known of her reclusive life until now. This illustrated letter, sent by Gray from Carrara, Italy, in 1966, is excerpted from Adam Federman’s new biography,  and is reprinted with permission from the publisher, Chelsea Green. As Federman writes in the introduction,

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