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Elizabeth David, the British cookery writer, published eight books in the 34 years between 1950 and 1984; the last was issued eight years before her death. After David's death, her literary executor, Jill Norman, supervised the publication of five more books, drawing on David's unpublished manuscripts and research and on her published writings for books and magazines. David's first five books, particularly the earlier works, contained recipes interspersed with literary quotation and descriptions of people and places that inspired her. By the time of her third book, ''Italian Food'', David had begun to add sections about the history of the cuisine and the particular dishes that she wrote about. Her interest in the history of cooking led her in her later years to research the history of spices, baking, and ice. Many of the recipes in David's early books were revised versions of her articles previously published in magazines and newspapers, and in ''An Omelette and a Glass of Wine'' (1984) she collected her favourites among her articles and presented them unedited with her afterthoughts appended. A second volume of reprinted articles was published after her death. David's biographer, Artemis Cooper, wrote, "She was hailed not only as Britain's foremost writer on food and cookery, but as the woman who had transformed the eating habits of middle-class England."〔 ==Background== David's interest in cooking was sparked by a 21st birthday gift from her mother of ''The Gentle Art of Cookery'' by Hilda Leyel, her first cookery book.〔David (2001), p. 5〕 She later wrote, "I wonder if I would have ever learned to cook at all if I had been given a routine Mrs Beeton to learn from, instead of the romantic Mrs Leyel with her rather wild, imagination-catching recipes."〔''Quoted in'' Cooper, p. 45〕 In 1938, David and a boyfriend travelled through France to Antibes, where she met and became greatly influenced by the ageing writer Norman Douglas, about whom she later wrote extensively.〔Two of her essays about him, "Have It Your Way", and "If You Care to Eat Shark", are included in ''An Omelette and a Glass of Wine'' (1984). See David (1986), pp. 120–124 and 139–143〕 He inspired her love of the Mediterranean, encouraged her interest in good food, and taught her to "search out the best, insist on it, and reject all that was bogus and second-rate."〔Cooper, p. 67〕 She continued her exploration of Mediterranean food and the use of fresh, local ingredients in Greece in 1940. When the Germans invaded Greece in April 1941, she fled to Egypt.〔Cooper, pp. 78–83〕 There, she and her employer engaged a Greek cook who, she wrote, produced magnificent food: "The flavour of that octopus stew, the rich wine dark sauce and the aroma of mountain herbs was something not easily forgotten."〔David (2001), p. 167〕 In 1942, she moved to Cairo, where she was asked to set up and run the Ministry of Information's reference library. The library was open to everyone and was much in demand by journalists and other writers. She employed a Sudanese ''suffragi'' (a cook-housekeeper) of whom she recalled: Returning to England after the Second World War and her years of access to superior cooking and a profusion of fresh ingredients, David encountered terrible food: "There was flour and water soup seasoned solely with pepper; bread and gristle rissoles; dehydrated onions and carrots; corned beef toad in the hole. I need not go on."〔David (1986), p. 21〕 Partly to earn some money, and partly from an "agonized craving for the sun", David began writing articles on Mediterranean cookery.〔 Her first efforts were published in 1949 in the British magazine ''Harper's Bazaar''. From the outset, David refused to sell the copyright of her articles, and so she was able to collect and edit them for publication in book form.〔David (1986), p. 14〕 Even before all the articles had been published, she had assembled them into a typescript volume called ''A Book of Mediterranean Food''.〔David (1999), p. vii〕〔Cooper, p. 144〕 The success of David's books put her in great demand by magazine editors. Among the publications for whom she regularly wrote for some period were ''Vogue'' magazine, ''The Sunday Times'' and ''The Spectator''.〔Cooper, Artemis. ("David, Elizabeth (1913–1992)", ) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 July 2013 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth David bibliography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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