The Art of Eating
50th Anniversary Edition
M.F.K. Fisher’s five early books collected in one volume: Serve It Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me and An Alphabet for Gourmets. Fisher wrote about hunger rather than recipes, and about what eating means when there is little to eat, which is why How to Cook a Wolf, written under wartime rationing, is the one people quote. The prose is the point, and W. H. Auden thought her the best in America.
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Ruth Reichl
MFK Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life. She had this epiphany when she went as a young bride to France and discovered food – to me, in the best possible way – and brought that back to America. What I love about her is that she’s really a wonderful writer. She’s very thoughtful about the subject of food – it’s a subject that she embraces and takes on.
Interview · November 2012
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