Serve it Forth (Paperback)

"The best prose writer in America."
--W.H. Auden

"She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better."
--Clifton Fadiman

"Poet of the appetites."
--John Updike

"A monument."
--Julia Child

"One of the world's finest food writers and, in the eyes of many, the grand dame of gastronomy."
--James Villas

"M.F.K. Fisher ... brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions."
--Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books

"One of my great heroes."
--Jacques Pepin

"A delightful book. It is erudite and witty and experienced and young."
--The New York Times Book Review

In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

General

Imprint:	North Point Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	September 2002
Authors:	M.F.K. Fisher
Dimensions:	210 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	146
ISBN-13:	978-0-86547-369-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General Books > Food & Drink > General
LSN:	0-86547-369-2
Barcode:	9780865473690

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