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    An Alphabet for Gourmets

    M.F.K Fisher

    Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose…

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    The Gastronomical Me

    M.F.K. Fisher

    A memoir of food and travel by America’s ‘poet of the appetites’.

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    How to Cook a Wolf

    M.F.K. Fisher

    The classic book on shopping, cooking and eating with courage and gusto – when food is scarce and the wolf is at the door. Written in 1942 to inspire courage…

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    M.f.k. Fisher’s Provence

    M. F. K. Fisher,Aileen Ah-Tye

    Enjoy M.F.K. Fisher’s strong sense of place and deep love of Provencewith this collection of rich, gorgeous photographs paired with some of Fisher’s best-known essays.

    M.F.K. Fisher’s Provence highlights Fisher’s…

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    Sister Age

    M.F.K. Fisher

    Fifteen narratives by the acclaimed writer focus on the art and processes of aging and living and dying, the implacable strength of age, the passing of identity, and the importance…

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    As They Were

    M.F.K. Fisher

    In this collection of essays the noted writer conjures up pleasures–and pangs–of sight, sound, and taste, in California, in France, and at sea, and evokes a world that is splendidly…

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    The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader

    Any discussion of the great masters of American English must include the writings of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher. For more than sixty years, in her writings about family, food, and…

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    An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher

    Anne Zimmerman

    In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher’s life are unwrapped and savored. The stories of Fisher’s love for…

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    Love in a Dish … And Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Whether the subject of her fancy is the lowly, unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that…

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    Map of Another Town

    M.F.K. Fisher,Tatyana Tolstaya

    Fisher’s memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, ‘my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,’ and a vibrant and…

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    Two Towns in Provence

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Describes the author’s experiences while traveling in France and portrays the cultures of the French towns of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence.

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    With Bold Knife and Fork

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Over 140 of the author’s favourite and most famous recipes can be found in this book. There are dishes for every course of every meal - from Teasers and Titbits…

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    The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy; Introduction by Bill Buford

    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

    First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, The Physiology of Taste is a historical, philosophical, and ultimately Epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on…

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    The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

    First published in 1825 after some three decades of consuming research, The Physiology of Taste is a renowned book about food, the senses and their pleasures. Brillat-Savarin declares that animals…

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    Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women’s Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M. F. K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

    Alice McLean

    This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of these women pioneered an idiosyncratic form…

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    Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women’s Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M. F. K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

    Alice McLean

    This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of these women pioneered an idiosyncratic form…

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