The Gastronomical Me (with an introduction by Bee Wilson) - Softcover
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With a new foreword by the award-winning food writer, Bee Wilson.
A memoir of travel, love, and loss, but above all hunger.
In 1929 M.F.K. Fisher left America for France, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. It inspired a prolific career as a food and travel writer. In The Gastronomical Me Fisher traces the development of her appetite, from her childhood in America to her arrival in Europe, where she embarked on a whole new way of eating, drinking, and living. She recounts unforgettable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions.
Here are meals as seductions, educations, diplomacies, and communions, in settings as diverse as a bedsit above a patisserie, a Swiss farm, and cruise liners across oceans. In prose convivial and confiding, Fisher illustrates the art of ordering well, the pleasures of dining alone, and how to eat so you always find nourishment, in both head and heart.
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The greatest food writer who has ever lived. --Simon Schama
She is not just a great food writer. She is a great writer, full stop. --Rachel Cooke, Observer
Her writing makes your mouth water. --Financial Times
About the Author
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) was one of the greatest American food writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of 27 books of food, memoir, and travel, many of which have become classics. Her books include Serve it Forth, How to Cook a Wolf, With Bold Knife and Fork, and a recently rediscovered novel, The Theoretical Foot.
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- PublisherDaunt Books
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1907970991
- ISBN 13 9781907970993
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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