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An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, 'a Russian hors d'oeuvre', An Alphabet for Gourmets takes us through a selection of food essays by the incomparable M. F. K. Fisher, alighting on long-time obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions to wholly charming effect.
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared #65533; la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found the ...Show more
Love in a Dish and Other Pieces : Great Food by M. F. K. Fisher
$9.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytelling. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an epic lunch served by a ...Show more
Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
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 perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
The Art of Eating (50th Anniversary edition) by M. F. K. Fisher; Joan Reardon
$34.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
RUTH REICHL "Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her." JULIA CHILD "How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome ...Show more
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K Fisher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger.
The Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Susan Harper and Joe Kelly, in love and hitchhiking through Europe, never want this perfect, passionate summer to end. It is the late 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin. But these tiresome strictures are swept away when they arrive at La Prairie, the elegant haven on ...Show more
Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employ ...Show more
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