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With Bold Knife and Fork

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

M.F.K. FISHER

Cooking Education & Reference

Random House Pod

M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytelling. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an epic lunch served by a fanatical waitress, the life-giving properties of wine, quails whose glorious smell 'would rouse Lazarus' or how the love of food can save a marriage, each piece is a perfectly-crafted work of art.

Love in a Dish and Other Pieces

Penguin??Books

Penguin Classics

LONG AGO IN FRANCE: THE YEARS IN DIJON

Travel

Europe

Prentice-Hall, 1991

The Art of Eating (Picador Books)

Macmillan

The Art of Eating

Papermac

Sister Age

Fifteen stories by the acclaimed writer focus on the art and processes of aging and living and dying, the implacable strength of age, the passing of identity, and the importance of witnessing death

Biographies & Memoirs

Alfred.A. Knopf

1976 Vintage Books jumbo trade paperback, {B} 3rd printing. M.F.K. Fisher (The Gastronomical Me). A collection of essays by one of America's best known food writers, that are often more autobiographical or historical than anecdotal musings on food preparation and consumption. The book includes culinary advice to World War II housewives plagued by food shortages, portraits of family members and friends (with all their idiosyncrasies) and notes on her studies at the University of Dijon, in France. Through each story she weaves her love of food and passion for cooking, and illustrates that our three basic needs as human beings--love, food and security--are so intermingled that it is difficult to think of one without the others. The book won the 1989 James Beard Cookbook Award. - Amazon

Vintage Books/Random House

This volume brings together two delightful books—Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town—by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. In her inimitable style, here M.F.K. Fisher tells the stories—and reveals the secrets—of two quintessential French cities. Map of Another Town, Fisher’s memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, “my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,” and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place. Then, in A Considerable Town, she scans the centuries to reveal the ancient sources that clarify the Marseille of today and the indestructible nature of its people, and in so doing weaves a delightful journey filtered through the senses of a profound writer.

Two Towns in Provence: Map of Another Town and a Considerable Town

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Vintage

Review\nAll creative cooks have their personal favorite cookbooks. They will extol what they consider to be the definitive recipe for cake, sauce, or jam, to be found in this or that book. One such cook and noted food authority is M.F.K. Fisher and she has for years treasured the slim volume by Catherine Plagemann, first published in 1967, Fine Preserving. Fisher, a noted cookbook author in her own right, now offers her annotated comments and a few of her personally favorite recipes to this previously out of print book. Mind you, Fisher is no blind apostle. Her comments range from the mildly disapproving "This is a fairly good recipe, but I still say no to the sneaky habits of pineapple in liqueur" to her firmly held opinion that cooks using artificial jelling agents (and Mrs. Plagemann was one such person) should be drawn and quartered. What is also apparent, however, is her solid respect for a cook who understood making preserves and was able to transform preserving from the lengthy surnmertime craft of farmwomen into an enjoyable art to be practiced year-round by anyone with a bit of skill and patience. The recipes range from fruit preserves to mushroom ketchup and a pepper dish called Moroccan Chermoula that holds the promise of instant addiction. The text is nicely enhanced by the pencil drawings of Earl Thollander and the introduction offers an equipment list and advice on techniques. This gives the interested reader an enjoyable, conversational visit with two knowledgeable cooks and the treat of learning a skill that can be enjoyed again and again with the opening of every new jar. -- From Independent Publisher

Fine Preserving M.F.K. Fisher's Annotated Edition of Catherine Plagemann's Cookbook

Aris Books

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