Volume 36, Number 19 · December 7, 1989
The Art of M. F. K. Fisher
By Patricia Storace
Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 323 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Among Friends
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 306 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Art of Eating: How to Cook a Wolf, Consider the Oyster, Serve it Forth, The Gastronomical Me, An Alphabet for Gourmets
by M.F.K. Fisher
Vintage, 749 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Serve It Forth
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 146 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Consider the Oyster
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 96 pp., $7.95 (paper)
How to Cook a Wolf
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 224 pp., $11.95 (paper)
The Gastronomical Me
by M.F.K. Fisher
North Point, 252 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Sister Age
by M.F.K. Fisher
Vintage, 243 pp., $7.95 (paper)
In 1937 Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher published Serve It Forth, the first of her unclassifiable works on the art of eating, blends of autobiography, culinary history, parable, and cookbook. Serve It Forth, as she tells us in her most recent book of essays, Dubious Honors, was deliberately written and accidentally published; in its idiosyncratic combination of storytelling and recipes she found the matrix for the subsequent books on food that have won her, at the age of eighty-one, a cult of readers ranging from insurance agents to Proust scholars.
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