M F K Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some twenty-seven books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel, and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing.
M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some twenty-seven books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel, and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. See less
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M F K Fisher book reviews
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How to Cook a Wolf
Living with Style during Hard Times
M.F.K. Fisher is rightly famous as a food writer. This is a humorous collection of tips on how to get by during wartime rationing. I
She includes a few recipes. Enjoyable. Read More
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A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast
Food is her metaphor
by dolpear, May 24, 2009
This classic is a cookbook for life, with remedies for whatever ails your heart and belly interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes in Fisher's inimitable voice. Updike called her "poet of the ... Read More
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Among Friends
Among Friends?
MFK Fisher writes about what she knows best: people, family, community and food. Her memoir brings out not only what her life was like, but also describes life in the US early in the 20th century -- ... Read More
