Bread & Oil: Majorcan Culture's Last Stand

By Tomas Graves

Book Overview

Coarse bread bathed in olive oil, then rubbed with tomato or garlic and salt, is common to all the Mediterranean cultures from France to Algeria, from Morocco to Greece. On the island of Majorca, it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909166162
• ISBN13: 9781909166165
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Grub Street Cookery
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A Cultural Treat

Tomas Graves captures the cultural nuances of Mallorca in his narrative. The book is a translation of the original Catalan text and some linguistic intimacy with his native readers seems to disappear in English. As a frequent visitor to the island, his descriptions of local life and customs had a lot of relevance to me that could easily be lost on someone who has not been to Mallorca or only experienced the island's garish holiday life. As he describes his favorite rembrances of island life and his personal experiences expressed around the singular theme of bread and oil, the repetiveness of the theme is noticeable, but Graves seems to expect the reader to bear with him as he shares his thoughts and stories. I enjoyed his verbal pictures of Mallorca enough to buy his latest book, Tuning Up at Dawn, which is about his Mallorcan remembrances of life as a musician.