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Serve It Forth - by M F K Fisher (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: M.F.K. Fisher is the author of numerous books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics.
- 176 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Essays & Narratives
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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.
Review Quotes
"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 ReviewAbout the Author
M.F.K. Fisher is the author of numerous books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics.