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The Gastronomical Me Paperback – October 10, 1989

by M. F. K. Fisher (Author)

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In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent.

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M. F. K. Fisher sees life stomach first. The New York Times said "She spit Puritan restraint out like a dull wine and made a life of savoring the slow, sensual pleasures of the table." And between meals, she savored the pleasures of men and travel, too. She recalls California in 1912, life in France in the 1930s, and traveling solo to Mexico in 1941. Her first oyster is a beautiful story, about adolescence and the glory of the briny mollusk, and her humor is as forthright as her taste at table.

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“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” ―W.H. Auden

“Poet of the appetites.” ―John Updike

“Because The Gastronomical Me is autobiographical, following Mrs. Fisher from childhood to widowhood in different countries, we are able to see its food not only as a matter of personal taste, but as a perpetual emotional and social force within a life. Here are meals as seductions, educations, diplomacies, communions. Unique among the classics of gastronomic writing, with its glamorous but not glamorized settings, its wartime drama and its powerful love story, The Gastronomical Me is a book about adult loss, survival, and love.” ―Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books

“She writes about fleeting tastes and feasts vividly, excitingly, sensuously, exquisitely. There is almost a wicked thrill in following her uninhibited track through the glories of the good life.” ―James Beard

“She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better.” ―Clifton Fadiman

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: North Point Press; Edition Unstated edition (October 10, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865473927
ISBN-13: 978-0865473928
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 31 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #544 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking Education & Reference > Essays
- #655 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Culinary
- #1935 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors

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Splendid sketches of the making of a food writer

January 10, 2010

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This is a great read for food lovers and francophiles. It isnt really a travel book at all, but Fisher's highly personal and frequently witty account of the experiences that shaped her thinking and made her one of the most noted food writers of the 20th century.

Fisher was an American, and her adult life in France began in 1929 when she and her new husband moved to Dijon. One quickly appreciates how difficult her experiences as a newcomer must have been -- no stove, no refrigerator, no heating in winter. Some reviewers didn't like the way the book left gaps in her personal life story. That's true, but it isnt a standard biography, it's a literary sketch book.

If you're looking for a travel book, this isn't one. Stylistically, because this book was written 65 or 70 years ago, there is no comparison between it and much later accounts of spending a year in Provence, touring the wine country, or houseboating on the Seine.

Finally, one reviewer here thought the last part of the book about her time in Mexico seemed out of place. I agree, so if you get the book and read everything but the bit about the Mexican soujourn, you will have gotten to the heart of what I think she wanted us to know, anyway.

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Learning about MFK Fisher was a great discovery for me -- she was a very puzzling ...

August 28, 2017

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Learning about MFK Fisher was a great discovery for me -- she was a very puzzling and interesting character. Wonderfully written memoirs.

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the wonderful peach pie she describes having had as a child

August 6, 2017

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M.F.K. Fisher's writing is graceful and vivid in this lovely little book. One can picture, indeed almost taste, the wonderful peach pie she describes having had as a child. A delightful read, highly recommended.

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April Biasiolli

March 23, 2017

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Such a charming and nostalgic romp through food, travel, and love!

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Rosalind Brackenbury

March 25, 2018

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I love her zest for life - and food.

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I loved it in spite of myself

September 29, 2000

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First I should admit I'm not a usual fan of MFK Fisher. I find her rambling and neurotic style a bit unsettling. Even in this book, one minute she's a snob and the next minute ... well I don't want to give it away. Nonethless, I loved it through and through. Much less neurotic or rambling than her other stuff. Marvelous stories. Wonderful points of view coming through. I really loved the story about that cook in her childhood who ... okay, I won't tell. If you like autobiography, this is a good one.

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October 3, 2016

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excellent

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Another perspective and very readable.

March 18, 2015

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A delicious book, an antidote to Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

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