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.
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A trade paperback reprint of the first book in the noted food writer's "Art of Eating" series, this originally appeared in 1937 and has long been out of print. In it Fisher gracefully "serves up" musings, anecdotes, history, reminiscences on (as she says) "eating and about what to eat and about people who eat." Also available from North Point are Consider the Oyster and How To Cook a Wolf; due this fall are An Alphabet for Gourmets and The Gastronomical Me. -- MR
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"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
"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
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This first book, a collection of essays by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, offers many examples of her brilliance. Especially wonderful are "The Standing and the Waiting" and "Cesar."
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There are two kinds of books about eating: those that try to imitate Brillat-Savarin's, and those that try not to. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Arise Resigned, Marion Harland, Miss Lyse, Paul Reboux, The Pale Yellow Glove, Common Sense, Fifty Million Snails, Pity the Blind New!
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- An Alphabet for Gourmets by M. F. K. Fisher in Front Matter
- The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by M. F. K. Fisher on page 110
- How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher in Front Matter
- Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher in Front Matter
- The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse on page 22
- Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher (Literary Conversations) by David Lazar on 18 pages
- Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher by Joan Reardon on 6 pages
- The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher on 6 pages
- Consuming Passions: A Feast of Quotations Celebrating Food and the Art of Dining by Jonathon Green on 4 pages
- Profiles from the Kitchen: What Great Cooks Have Taught Us about Ourselves and Our Food by Charles A. Baker-Clark on page 39, page 40, and page 47
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