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  • Series: Destinations
  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Touchstone; Reprint edition (February 15, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671755145
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671755140
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Reader's Feast
By M. Allen Greenbaum HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on November 15, 2002
Format: Paperback
Between 1929 and 1932, young M.F.K. Fisher (later a famed chef and memoirist) and her husband Al Fisher lived and studied in Dijon, France. Here she discovered the people and the food of Burgundy, and she describes both with warmth, sensuality, and humor (without becoming overly sentimental: "It was there, I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be."
Her writing is crisp and evocative. "He took the apple slices from the bowl one by one, almost faster than we could see, and shook off the wine and laid them in a great, beautiful whorl, from the outside to the center, as perfect as a snail shell. We said not a word. The music trembled in the room." Fisher helps the reader discover the beauty of our appetites. She writes of an old soldier who offers her chocolate: "The chocolate broke at first like gravel into many separate, disagreeable bits...Then they grew soft, and melted voluptuously." Then a doctor offers her bread, admonishing, "Never eat chocolate without bread, young lady!" There is a delicious denouement: "...in two minutes my mouth was full of fresh bread, and melting chocolate, and as we sat gingerly, the three of us, on the frozen hill...we peered shyly and silently at each other and chewed at one of the most satisfying things I have ever eaten..."
This was a time of great importance for Fisher, and she generously shares her experiences in a richly satisfying book. It's a small treasure.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best from America's 1st literary foodie
By Peggy Vincent on July 23, 2003
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MFK Fisher holds a special place in the hearts of all `foodie' Americans. She was perhaps the 1st person to see the sense of writing food-based literary books and articles, and of course it's now a genre unto itself. But few have rivaled her beautiful prose, and I recall reading that she once said she considered it a day well-lived if she'd managed to compose one perfect sentence. To consider her just a food writer is to do her an injustice; she is a writer, first and foremost, who happens, sometimes, to write about food.
Long Ago in France is a memoir of her years in Dijon in the 30s, a book full of rich wine, rich ideas, character portraits filled with rich detail. It's about Life, a life filled with joy, experience, food, travel, and memorable people. This book is a paean to a lost era.
Highest recommendation.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent - 'the art of eating' & how to live one's life
By Susannah Indigo on July 9, 2000
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MFK Fisher wrote like an angel about food and wine and people and conversation and just about everything else that could possibly matter. She lived an enviable life, always at ease whether she was in Dijon or Switzerland or Sonoma Valley, and always writing brilliantly about how to live one's life fully. "Long Ago in France" tells of her discovery of voluptuous living in Dijon in the 1930's; "As They Were" is a collection of essays from her travels that rivals Paul Theroux for vivid evocations of place; "With Bold Knife and Fork" is a collection of some 140 recipes all wrapped up in lovely chapters with titles like "Some Ways to Laugh" and "The Trouble With Tripe." (Reviewed in detail by Susannah Indigo for Clean Sheets Magazine ...)
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4.0 out of 5 starsDistant memories...
By John P. Jones III TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on August 3, 2015
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M.F.K Fisher went to live in Dijon, with her new American husband, who was working on his post-graduate degree there, in 1929. She was in her early 20's. She published these reminisces some six decades later, at the beginning of the 90's, which includes an introduction by Jan Morris. An old Army buddy friend, who also enjoyed sharing the many pleasures of France, brought me this book in 1991. I finally got around to reading it!

Fisher, and her husband Al, were the only permanent American residents in Dijon at the time. They live in a boarding house, which provided very basic accommodations. The author renders some incisive portraits of French provincial life, its simple pleasures - like walks with the Alpine club - and the shopping rituals, going from one shop for this, to another shop for that. The war - "the Great One" - still marks life there, including the feared invasion of the "Bosches." The landlady, Madam Ollangnier, is described in the greatest detail, including her many cooking rituals. They were young and in love, and in France, and "...we were lucky to know people of almost every class, and to be within ourselves eager, interested..." and "...there were the proper wines, whether they came out of a spigot into a thick tumbler or slipped from a cradled cobwebbed bottle into the bottoms of glasses that rang thinly in the faintest stir of air." As for their forays into the countryside with the Alpine Club: "And in two minutes my mouth was full of fresh bread, and melting chocolate, and as we sat gingerly, the three of us, on the frozen hill, looking down into the valley where Vercingetorix had fought so splendidly...Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsLots of the same
By M. Carlson on January 20, 2013
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I knew going into this I might not enjoy it. It was written in Fisher's later years and is basically the same story told in earlier books. However, without any of the emotion or beauty of her earlier works.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

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Published 8 months ago by Jill Stein
4.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyed the book

First time I had read M.F.K. Fisher. Enjoyed the book.

Published 16 months ago by Pamela K. Barclay
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So so writing

Published 20 months ago by Peter Bundy
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MFK Fisher is the best

Published on August 4, 2014 by Edward V. Barrett
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Published on July 3, 2014 by cstchef.ink
5.0 out of 5 starsWriting packs a bite

Bitingly candid...but very much worth reading, especially if you are planning on visiting France or Dijon specifically. Read more

Published on October 30, 2013 by History Buff
1.0 out of 5 starsGood for insomnia!

This book is truly awful! It is a rambling, unedited, boring "memoir" that reads like a bad diary. The author comes across as an unlikeable snob. Read more

Published on January 10, 2012 by xyzreader
4.0 out of 5 starsThe Making Of A Food Writer

I didn't know anything about Dijon besides the Grey-Poupon. There's a lot more to it than just the moutard. Read more

Published on June 15, 2011 by Someone Else
5.0 out of 5 starsDijon du Jour

With her usual wit and style, MFK Fisher brings the food and atmosphere of Dijon alive. It is a fun book, perfect as an introduction to a way of life that is both foreign and... Read more

Published on June 29, 2006 by J. Folk
4.0 out of 5 starsEnjoyable, tantalizing

This is an enjoyable, tantalizing book, with some dull spots in the earlier chapters. It is an account of Fisher's 3 years in Dijon, where she moved in 1929 so that her new... Read more

Published on January 3, 2006 by algo41

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