An Alphabet for Gourmets

An Alphabet for Gourmets

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1989-10-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780865473911

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Fisher's magic with language is intertwined with her culinary expertise to provide the perfect recipe for teaching some basic steps to satisfying one's appetite.


My Foodie ABC

My Foodie ABC

Author: Puck

Publisher: duopress

Published: 2010-07-09

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0982529570

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C is for chanterelle mushrooms. Q is for quinoa, S is for saffron. Here is a fun and unexpected introduction to the world of food and the alphabet, featuring exotic cuisine from around the world that will delight babies and their foodie parents! Vibrant illustrations highlight terms such as farmers market, Kobe beef, pomegranate, and udon pair with fun foodie facts to make learning the alphabet easy and enriching. Readers will learn that dragon fruit tastes like a kiwi combined with a grape or pear. And did you know that the term bento box comes from the Japanese word obento, which means boxed lunches? A complete introduction to the alphabet and gastronomical terms, this unique book also includes a pronunciation guide, making it an ideal companion for food aficionados.


The Art of Eating

The Art of Eating

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004-03-05

Total Pages: 789

ISBN-13: 0764542613

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This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me", "Serve it Forth", "How to Cook a Wolf", and "An Alphabet for Gourmets". The volume contains an array of thoughts, memories and recipes.


The Gastronomical Me

The Gastronomical Me

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1989-10-10

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0865473927

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Fisher identifies a variety of human cravings and the means to find nourishment in what is the most intimate of the five volumes in North Point's jacketed paperback series, now complete.


Consider the Oyster

Consider the Oyster

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1988-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780865473355

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Fisher pays tribute to one of the most delicate and enigmatic of foods--the oyster--in this gastronomical classic, originally published in 1941 and now reissued as a sumptuous jacketed paperback. Includes 28 recipes and descriptions of various regional styles of preparation.


Serve It Forth

Serve It Forth

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780865473690

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This collection of entertaining anecdotes includes the abuses of the potato and how it can be dignified, social status relative to one's appreciation of vegetables, and the growth of the art of eating in ancient Greece and Rome.


How to Cook a Wolf

How to Cook a Wolf

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1988-10

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780865473362

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First published in 1942 when wartime shortages were at their worst, the ever-popular How to Cook a Wolf, continues to surmount the unavoidable problem of cooking within a budget. Here is a wealth of practical and delicious ways to keep the wolf from the door.


M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

Author: Joan Reardon

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520261682

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"For decades, food-lovers have taken enormous pleasure in the stories, the characters and the inimitable prose style of M. F. K. Fisher. Now we discover the kitchens and the dinner tables--the very meals that inspired M. F. K. Fisher to write. In this insightful and evocative book, Joan Reardon distills Fisher's life to its culinary essence and reveals her to us anew."--Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century "Reardon's commentary reveals an intimate understanding of the personality of M. F. K. Fisher. Few who enjoy food and read M. F. K. Fisher's work do not thirst to know more about this woman, and knowing about the places she lived and cooked gives a greater understanding of her writings, her feelings, her passions and frustrations."--Jerry Anne DiVecchio, Senior Food Editor, Sunset Magazine "I've always admired M. F. K. Fisher's gastronomical ingenuity and vivid culinary imagination. In this rich portrait, Joan Reardon eloquently shares with us Mary Frances's great lesson: to cook well, you need only the most elementary kitchen, a mortar and pestle, and full awareness of your own five senses."--Alice Waters


Food and Literature

Food and Literature

Author: Gitanjali G. Shahani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 1108623441

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This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avant-garde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics, and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments, and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat', it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies, and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.


The Art of Eating

The Art of Eating

Author: M. F. K. Fisher

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 715

ISBN-13: 0544177436

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“Should be required reading for every cook. It defines in a sensual and beautiful way the vital relationship between food and culture.”—Alice Waters This comprehensive volume of essays on culinary and other pleasures of life comes from the legendary and widely traveled writer “whose artful personal essays about food created a genre” (The New York Times) and who writes “practically, often profoundly, and always beautifully” (San Francisco Chronicle). Spanning from the autobiographical to the historical, it compiles her works Serve It Forth; Consider the Oyster; How to Cook a Wolf; The Gastronomical Me; and An Alphabet for Gourmets. “How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome opinions on food and those who produce it, comment upon it, and consume it are as apt today as they were several decades ago, when she composed them. Why did she choose food and hunger she was asked, and she replied, ‘When I write about hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth, and the love of it…and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied.’ This is the stuff we need to hear, and to hear again and again.”—Julia Child “Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her.”—Ruth Reichl