Two Towns in Provence

Two Towns in Provence

by M.F.K. Fisher (Author)

Synopsis

Over the years M. F. K. Fisher spent much of her time living and travelling round France, and ruminating - wisely, entertainingly, and with a deep and well-informed affection - on French food, French manners, French places and, of course, the French themselves. Here she not only celebrates, in her uniquely perceptive, evocative fashion, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, but also gives us 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself'. Weaving together topography, history, folklore and personal memoirs with the looks, the sound, the smell and the taster of her chosen cities, M. F. I. Fisher provides the traveller, the gourmet and the lover of France and fine writing with unforgettable portraits of two remarkable and highly individual towns.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 0099442655
ISBN 13: 9780099442653
Book Overview: M. F. K. Fisher is widely recognised as one of America's finest writers and most highly esteemed of all authorities on food and the pleasures of the table. 20030819

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She is a national treasure. -- Jean Strouse, Newsweek
Author Bio
Mary Frances Kennedy was born in 1908. Through her artful essays on food and life, which she first began writing in France in the 1930s, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher transformed the mundane activity of eating into a passion. A unique blend of thoughtful instruction, sense-awakening recipes, and reflections on life's values, Fisher's writing is everywhere informed by her conviction that our basic human needs for love, shelter, and food are indivisibly connected. She died in 1992 having suffered from Parkinson's Disease.