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A National Bestseller
Described as a national treasure and the finest prose writer in America, and christened as a "Poet of the Appetites," M.F.K. Fisher has long been considered the finest food writer of the 20th century. But Fisher would have rejected the term "food writer" as an inaccurate and limiting description of her oeuvre for good reason. Though best know for her gastronomic writings, M.F.K. Fisher was also a novelist, travel writer, memoirist, critic, and essayist of the highest order. In an astoundingly prolific career, Fisher wrote over two dozen books, hundreds of magazine articles, dozens of book reviews, and many volumes of journals. Her output, which influenced generations of writers, has been translated into ten languages and has appeared in nearly one hundred anthologies. M.F.K. Fisher: An Annotated Bibliography is an essential tool for accessing and understanding Fisher's life and work. Comprehensive in scope, it is the definitive resource for Fisher fans, scholars, researchers, and booksellers. The bibliography identifies everything ever published by Fisher and provides concise summaries of each work, as well as citations to hundreds of publications about Fisher's life and work. The Fourth Revised Edition also contains much new information including descriptions to assist with physical identification of the many editions of Fisher's books, an appendix listing nearly one hundred examples of Fisher's inclusions in anthologies, and identification of World Wide Web accessible material by and about Fisher.
Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's
writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and
varied in form," writes Joan Reardon in her introduction to this
eclectic, lively collection. Magazine writing launched and helped
to sustain Fisher's long, illustrious career and in these
fifty-seven pieces we experience again the inimitable voice of the
woman widely known to have elevated food writing to a literary art.
In more than thirty books, M.F.K. Fisher forever changed the way
Americans understood not only the art of eating but the art of
living. Whether considering the oyster or describing how to cook a
wolf, she addressed the universal needs "for food and security and
love." Readers were instantly drawn into her circle of husbands and
lovers, artists and artisans; they felt they knew Fisher herself,
whether they encountered her as a child with a fried-egg sandwich
in her pocket, a young bride awakening to the glories of French
food, or a seductress proffering the first peas of the season.
From her very first book, "Serve It Forth", M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. "M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans", interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated with original watercolors, is a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's life as it unfolded in those homey settings - from Fisher's childhood in Whittier, California, to the kitchens of Dijon, where she developed her taste for French foods and wines; from the idyllic kitchen at Le Paquis to the isolation of her home in Hemet, California; and finally to her last days in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. M.F.K. Fisher was a solitary cook who interpreted the scenario of a meal in her own way, and "M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans" provides a deeply personal glimpse of a woman who continues to mystify even as she commands our attention.
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