M.F.K. Fisher

Beginning with her first vivid food memory—the visceral experience of savouring her grandmother's greyish-pink strawberry jam—M.F.K. Fisher invites readers to embark on a captivating journey of gastronomical discovery in The Gastronomical Me. From her childhood in the United States to her transformative time in Dijon as a young woman, where she encounters authentic French cuisine for the first time, Fisher...

Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K. Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose, an eye for evocative detail, and a knack for sharp-edged wit, she draws us into the whole experience: from the company to the setting, from the preparation to the scraped-clean...

The celebrated American food writer M.F.K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters found in stews and soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared à la Rockefeller or au naturel — and of the pearls sometimes found therein. As she describes each dish, Fisher recalls her own initiation into the 'strange cold...

A poet of the appetites - John Updike In one of her most celebrated books, the doyenne of food writers offers us more than 140 of her favourite and most famous recipes. Here are dishes for every course of every meal - from 'Teasers and Titbits', through 'Some Seeds of this Planet' to 'A Plethora of Puddings'. Whether simple or...