by M. Fisher (Author)
In her first book, written in 1937, the grande dame of gastronomy and letters delightfully proclaims; If you have to eat to live, you may as well enjoy it.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 18 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0865473692
ISBN 13: 9780865473690
The best prose writer in America. --W.H. Auden
She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better. --Clifton Fadiman
Poet of the appetites. --John Updike
A monument. --Julia Child
One of the world's finest food writers and, in the eyes of many, the grand dame of gastronomy. --James Villas
M.F.K. Fisher ... brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions. --Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books
One of my great heroes. --Jacques Pepin
A delightful book. It is erudite and witty and experienced and young. --The New York Times Book Review
M.F.K. Fisher is the author of numerous books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics.