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# Patience Gray

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Patience Jean Gray was an English cookery and travel writer of the mid-20th century. Her two most popular books were Plats Du Jour (1957) – written with Primrose Boyd, about French cooking – and Honey From A Weed (1986), an account of the Mediterranean way of life.

##  Quotes by Patience Gray

> [Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patience-gray/home-made-bread-rubbed-with-garlic-and-sprinkled-with-olive-oil/)

Patience Gray

[Bread](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bread/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/patience-gray-78539_bread_home-made-bread-rubbed-with-garlic-and-s_114582.png)

> [Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patience-gray/pounding-fragrant-things-particularly-garlic-basil-parsley-is-a/)

Patience Gray

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/patience-gray-78539_alterations_pounding-fragrant-things-particularly-ga_1423398.jpg)

> [ Some hours after eating this dish \[lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots\],… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patience-gray/some-hours-after-eating-this-dish-li-vre-la-royale-which-contains-20/)

Patience Gray

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/351/patience-gray-78539_dishes_some-hours-after-eating-this-dish-li-vre_2030486.png)

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