With Bold Knife And Fork

With Bold Knife And Fork

by Prue Leith (Introduction), M.F.K. Fisher (Author)

Synopsis

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 esoteric, all are served with an inimitable mixture of wit, anecdote and practicality.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Nov 2001

ISBN 10: 0099422646
ISBN 13: 9780099422648
Book Overview: 'A poet of the appetites' John Updike 20010730

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This book is brimful of joie-de-vivre; it's a delicious mix of witty anecdote and practical instruction * Simple Things *
Author Bio
Born in Michigan in 1908, M. F. K. Fisher developed her love of cooking in France, where she lived with her first husband, Al Fisher. She began to write about food in 1935. In 1938 she moved to Switzerland with her second husband, the painter Dillwyn Parish. After his death in 1941 she returned to California and several years later married the publisher Donald Friede, with whom she had two daughters. In the early 1960s she became active in the American civil rights movement and went to Mississippi as a volunteer teacher. She died in 1992.