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    Consider the Oyster

    M. F. K. Fisher

    The celebrated American food writer M. F. K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. In characteristically wise and witty prose, she tells of…

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    Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher

    This collection of interviews captures the conversation of one of the most prominent prose writers in the Unites States. These interviews reveal her uncompromising and frequently contradictory attitudes toward the…

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    M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens

    Joan Reardon

    Offers a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher’s life - from her childhood in Whittier, California, to the kitchens of Dijon, where she developed her taste for French foods and…

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    With Bold Knife and Fork

    M F K Fisher

    The woman who elevated food writing to an art is at her best in this mouthwatering collection of memoirs and recipes. Boldly confessing her prejudices and her passions, M.F.K Fisher…

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    Among Friends

    M. F. K. Fisher

    A fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, the woman who elevated food writing to a literary…

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    A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast

    M. F. K. Fisher

    First published in 1961, this charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers is interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes from Fisher’s life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland.

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    The Theoretical Foot

    M. F. K. Fisher

    An undiscovered novel by an iconic American food writer - the publication of this enchanting portrait of 1930s bohemian life will be a major literary event

    ‘I sank into The…

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    The Theoretical Foot: A Novel

    M. F. K. Fisher

    When Robert Lescher died in 2012 an unpublished manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher’s was discovered neatly packed in the one of the literary agent’s signature red boxes. Inspired by Fisher’s affair…

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    Not Now but Now: A Novel

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Those who court danger are often the most circumspect. In this stylish novel, M. F. K. Fisher traces the course of Jennie, a willful wandering woman, a lovely enchantress calculating…

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    A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast

    M F K Fisher

    2013 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. For many years Fisher collected lore about odd restoratives and remedies-medicines, nostrum, herbs…

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    Serve it Forth

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Essays and anecdotes on the subject of gastronomy discuss the abuses of the potato, the furtive enjoyment of secret eatings, and the culinary customs of ancient Greece, the Roman empire…

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    Consider the Oyster

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Fisher pays tribute to one of the most delicate and enigmatic of foods–the oyster–in this gastronomical classic, originally published in 1941 and now reissued as a sumptuous jacketed paperback. Includes…

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    An Alphabet for Gourmets

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Fisher’s magic with language is intertwined with her culinary expertise to provide the perfect recipe for teaching some basic steps to satisfying one’s appetite.

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    How to Cook a Wolf

    M. F. K. Fisher

    First published in 1942 when wartime shortages were at their worst, the ever-popular How to Cook a Wolf, continues to surmount the unavoidable problem of cooking within a budget. Here…

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    The Gastronomical ME

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Fisher identifies a variety of human cravings and the means to find nourishment in what is the most intimate of the five volumes in North Point’s jacketed paperback series, now…

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    Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child

    Betty Fussell

    Ever since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pate and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw…

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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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    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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    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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    Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets

    M. F. K. Fisher

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-373) and index.

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    Art of Eating

    M. F. K. Fisher,Joan Reardon

    Defines the vital relationship between food and culture.

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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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    As They Were

    M F K Fisher

    Written as a series of vignettes, this rewarding book recounts the life and adventures of respected writer Mary Fisher. Decades of travel through America and Europe supply the fodder for…

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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 Good Cook’s Book of Oil and Vinegar: One of the World’s Most Delicious Pairings, with more than 150 recipes

    Michele Anna Jordan

    Originally published: Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, c1992.

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    The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book Lib/E

    Alice B Toklas

    I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.

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    The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

    Alice B Toklas

    I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.

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    The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

    Alice B Toklas

    I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.

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    The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

    This volume addresses a range of subjects including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegitarianism and starvation, the environmental and safety risks of genetically modified food, global food politics…

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