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M.F.K. Fisher, Serve it Forth Fisher, who died in 1992, is still considered the grand dame of gastronomy. Not only did she raise the craft of food writing to an art, she defined the field for nearly ever practitioner who came in her wake. Her relationship with food was sensual, personal, social, and metaphorical all at once. Her tactile descriptions of eating a bag of potato chips, say, or eating caviar on board a steamer ship unlocked memories, carried emotions, and illuminated relationships. As Clifton Fadiman once said, she wrote "about food as others do about love, but rather better." In all, she wrote more than twenty books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. "If you have to eat to live, you may as well enjoy it," she proclaims here in her first book. A collection of entertaining anecdotes includes the abuses of the potato and how it can be dignified, social status relative to one's appreciation of vegetables, and the growth of the art of eating in ancient Greece and Rome." MORE: Amazon |
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