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M. F. K. Fisher (1908–1992)

Autore di The Art of Eating

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Born July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan, M.F.K Fisher was raised primarily in Whittier, California, where she enjoyed cooking meals for her family. Encouraged in literary pursuits by her parents, she combined her favorite pastimes-cooking and writing-and began writing about cooking as early as 1929 mostra altro when she moved to Dijon, France, with her first husband, Alfred Fisher. Fisher was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Dijon. She has written under the names Mary Frances Parrish, Victoria Bern, and Victoria Berne. A prolific author, her work is primarily autobiography and memoir. Her long list of publications includes Dubious Honors (1988) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1945, (1993). She also contributed articles to widely known magazines, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Gourmet. Fisher died of Parkinson's disease on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:

(eng) MFK Fisher and husband Dillwyn Parrish co-wrote the novel "[Touch and Go]" as Victoria Berne.

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Opere di M. F. K. Fisher

The Art of Eating (1954) 1,853 copie
The Gastronomical Me (1989) 611 copie
Come cucinare il lupo (1942) 591 copie
With Bold Knife and Fork (1969) 390 copie
Two Towns in Provence (1983) 390 copie
Sister Age (1983) 357 copie
As They Were (1982) 356 copie
An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949) 271 copie
Serve It Forth (1937) 230 copie
Among Friends (1971) 214 copie
To Begin Again (1992) 153 copie
Not Now, but Now (1947) 102 copie
Dubious Honors (1988) 74 copie
The Theoretical Foot (2016) 42 copie
A Considerable Town (1978) 40 copie
M.F.K. Fisher's Provence (2015) 14 copie
Two Kitchens in Provence (1999) 9 copie
Spirits of the Valley (1985) 4 copie
Lears 1990.06 1 copia
Vogue 1948.07 1 copia
Vogue 1979.11 1 copia
Omni 1989.10 1 copia
Saga 1962.03 1 copia
Little Fishes 1 copia
Cesar 1 copia
People Ask Me 1 copia
Milk Toast 1 copia
About Cats 1 copia
Marseille (2016) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Physiologie du goût (1825) — Translator & Annotations, alcune edizioni1,511 copie
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Collaboratore — 1,371 copie
Il libro di cucina di Alice B. Toklas (1954) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni730 copie
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Collaboratore — 535 copie
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (1980) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni519 copie
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Collaboratore — 409 copie
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Collaboratore — 297 copie
Brother Juniper's Bread Book: Slow-rise As Method And Metaphor (1991) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni212 copie
Square Meals (1984) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni200 copie
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Collaboratore — 191 copie
The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life (1962) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni178 copie
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Collaboratore — 142 copie
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel (2001) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (1978) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
A Commonplace Book of Cookery (1975) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni40 copie
Great Vegetables From the Great Chefs (1990) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni36 copie
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Travelers' Tales PROVENCE : True Stories (2003) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
My Paris (1972) — Introduzione — 16 copie
Antaeus No. 68, Spring 1992 (1992) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird (2023) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Continent's End: A Collection of California Writing (1944) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Bonanza Banquets (1950) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Not a Station but a Place (1979) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni7 copie
Architectural Digest 1999 April (1999) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Haunted Dancers (1967) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1964/04 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature (2010) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1984/04 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Architectural Digest 1989 May — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Argosy January 1950 (1950) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Atlantic, October 1946 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
'47 The Magazine of the Year (#11, November) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Husbands and Lovers (1949) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
New Yorker 1966.09.24 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
America Illustrated 1974.10 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1947.04 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1944.11 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1950.02 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1949.01 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1945.05 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1950.04 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1955.08 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1944.03 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1943.10 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Atlantic 1937.06 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Architectural Digest 1989 July — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Architectural Digest 1989 March — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Architectural Digest 1980 July — Collaboratore — 1 copia
American Way 1991.09.01 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
American Health 1991.July/August — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Consider the Oyster - The Prototype Press in Fine Press Forum (Dicembre 2021)
M.F.K. Fisher in Legacy Libraries (Aprile 2015)

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Clear-eyed evocation of a long-gone France. Read in Dijon, walked down her street, saw the same buildings, some 80 years on.
 
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fmclellan | 6 altre recensioni | Jan 23, 2024 |
"L'huître mène une vie terrible, mais palpitante." Comment résister à un tel incipit ?
 
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marievictoire | 9 altre recensioni | Dec 30, 2023 |
 
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StigAllan | 1 altra recensione | Dec 11, 2023 |
This is a collection of essays written by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher over the course of her life. They are personal introspection on the topics of her childhood, marriages, people she has known and places she has lived; all around the theme of food and enjoying food with those one loves.
If you have read her work before, you know that her use of language in writing is masterful and evocative. If you have not, you will find that reading her essays is an immersive and transformative experience.… (altro)
 
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MrsLee | Sep 28, 2023 |

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Opere
269
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Utenti
8,624
Popolarità
#2,789
Voto
4.0
Recensioni
361
ISBN
177
Lingue
11
Preferito da
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