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RUTH REICHL
"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."
JULIA CHILD
"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."
ALCIE WATERS
"This comprehensive volume should be required reading for every cook. It defines in a sensual and beautiful way the vital relationship between food and culture."
Author Notes
Born July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan, M.F.K Fisher was raised primarily in Whittier, California, where she enjoyed cooking meals for her family. Encouraged in literary pursuits by her parents, she combined her favorite pastimes-cooking and writing-and began writing about cooking as early as 1929 when she moved to Dijon, France, with her first husband, Alfred Fisher.
Fisher was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Dijon. She has written under the names Mary Frances Parrish, Victoria Bern, and Victoria Berne. A prolific author, her work is primarily autobiography and memoir. Her long list of publications includes Dubious Honors (1988) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1945, (1993). She also contributed articles to widely known magazines, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Gourmet.
Fisher died of Parkinson's disease on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Library Journal Review
This volume combines five of Fisher's popular cooking titles (Serve It Forth, Consider the Oyster, How To Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, and An Alphabet for Gourmets) for one low price. Look for Joan Reardon's Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K Fisher, from North Point: Farrar in October. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| The Art of Eating: In Celebration | p. x |
| Thoughts About M. F. K. Fisher and Her Work | p. xvi |
| One More Time | p. xxvi |
| Appreciation | p. xxviii |
| Introduction | p. xxx |
| Serve It Forth | |
| To Begin | p. 5 |
| When a Man Is Small | p. 7 |
| Greek Honey and the Hon-Zo (3000 B.C.-100 A.D.--Egypt, the Orient, and Greece) | p. 12 |
| The Curious Nose | p. 17 |
| Let the Sky Rain Potatoes | p. 22 |
| Borderland | p. 26 |
| Garum (100 A.D.-400 A.D.--Rome) | p. 29 |
| Fifty Million Snails | p. 34 |
| Meals for Me | p. 40 |
| Dark Ages and the Men of God (1000 A.D.-1400 A.D.--Europe) | p. 45 |
| I Arise Resigned | p. 47 |
| In Sinistra Parte, Johannus Baptista (1100 A.D.-1450 A.D.--England) | p. 52 |
| Pity the Blind in Palate | p. 57 |
| A Pigges Pettie Toes (Elizabethan England) | p. 60 |
| The Standing and the Waiting | p. 64 |
| Catherine's Lonesome Cooks (1533 A.D.-1810 A.D.--France) | p. 75 |
| Two Birds Without a Branch | p. 80 |
| The Pale Yellow Glove | p. 83 |
| The Brothers | p. 89 |
| Set-piece for a Fishing Party (1810 A.D.-1900 A.D.--France) | p. 91 |
| On Dining Alone | |
| Sing of Dinner in a Dish | p. 100 |
| Shell-Shock and Richard the Third (1900 A.D.--Europe and America) | p. 107 |
| The Social Status of a Vegetable | p. 111 |
| Cesar | p. 116 |
| To End | p. 121 |
| Consider The Gyster | |
| Love and Death Among the Molluscs | p. 125 |
| A Supper to Sleep On | p. 129 |
| R is for Oyster | p. 135 |
| The Well-dressed Oyster | p. 139 |
| Take 300 Clean Oysters | p. 144 |
| A Lusty Bit of Nourishment | p. 146 |
| Pearls Are Not Good to Eat | p. 160 |
| Those Were Happy Days | p. 166 |
| Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup | p. 170 |
| Love Was the Pearl | p. 175 |
| My Country, 'Tis of Thee | p. 178 |
| As Luscious as Locusts | p. 181 |
| How To Cook A Wolf | |
| Introduction to Revised edition | p. 187 |
| How to Be Sage Without Hemlock | p. 189 |
| How to Catch the Wolf | p. 195 |
| How to Distribute Your Virtue | p. 198 |
| How to Boil Water | p. 207 |
| How to Greet the Spring | p. 223 |
| How Not to Boil an Egg | p. 229 |
| How to Keep Alive | p. 240 |
| How to Rise Up Like New Bread | p. 245 |
| How to Be Cheerful Though Starving | p. 252 |
| How to Carve the Wolf | p. 257 |
| How to Make a Pigeon Cry | p. 277 |
| How to Pray for Peace | p. 286 |
| How to Be Content with a Vegetable Love | p. 296 |
| How to Make a Great Show | p. 300 |
| How to Have a Sleek Pelt | p. 305 |
| How to Comfort Sorrow | p. 310 |
| How to Be a Wise Man | p. 320 |
| How to Lure the Wolf | p. 323 |
| How to Drink to the Wolf | p. 329 |
| How Not to Be an Earthworm | p. 335 |
| How to Practice True Economy | p. 343 |
| Conclusion | p. 350 |
| The Gastronomical Me | |
| Foreword | p. 353 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 354 |
| A Thing Shared | p. 356 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 359 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 364 |
| The First Oyster | p. 368 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 378 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 382 |
| Sea Change | p. 385 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 393 |
| To Feed Such Hunger | p. 408 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 419 |
| Noble and Enough | p. 427 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 435 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 446 |
| Sea Change | p. 455 |
| Sea Change | p. 463 |
| Sea Change | p. 469 |
| Define This Word | p. 474 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 483 |
| Once I Dreamed | p. 501 |
| I Remember Three Restaurants | p. 502 |
| Sea Change | p. 510 |
| The Lemming to the Sea | p. 518 |
| The Flaw | p. 526 |
| The Measure of My Powers | p. 536 |
| Feminine Ending | p. 552 |
| An Alphabet For Gourmets | |
| Foreword | p. 575 |
| A is for dining Alone | p. 577 |
| B is for Bachelors | p. 584 |
| C is for Cautious | p. 589 |
| D is for Dining out | p. 594 |
| E is for Exquisite | p. 600 |
| F is for Family | p. 605 |
| G is for Gluttony | p. 613 |
| H is for Happy | p. 618 |
| I is for Innocence | p. 623 |
| J is for Juvenile dining | p. 628 |
| K is for Kosher | p. 634 |
| L is for Literature | p. 640 |
| M is for Monastic | p. 645 |
| N is for Nautical | p. 650 |
| O is for Ostentation | p. 658 |
| P is for Peas | p. 663 |
| Q is for Quantity | p. 670 |
| R is for Romantic | p. 678 |
| S is for Sad | p. 682 |
| T is for Turbot | p. 687 |
| U is for Universal | p. 693 |
| V is for Venality | p. 701 |
| W is for Wanton | p. 706 |
| X is for Xanthippe | p. 713 |
| Y is for Yak | p. 720 |
| Z is for Zakuski | p. 727 |
| From A to Z: The Perfect Dinner | p. 736 |