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Friday, June 19, 2009
Author of the Day: M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher -- born Mary Frances Kennedy -- created a literary genre by writing about "the art of eating" and her life with food. I love, love, love her books.
Some of them are hard to find, so I may never get to finish this list, but I hope so. Those I have read are in red. Those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue.
Serve it Forth (1937)
Consider the Oyster (1941)
How to Cook a Wolf (1942)
The Gastronomical Me (1943)
Here Let Us Feast, A Book of Banquets (1946)
Not Now But NOW (1947) (a novel)
An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949)
The Physiology of Taste [translator] (1949)
A Cordial Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast (1961)
The Story of Wine in California (1962)
Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (1964)
Two Kitchens in Provence (1966) (an almost impossible to find novel)
The Cooking of Provincial France (1969)
With Bold Knife and Fork (1969)
Among Friends (1971)
A Considerable Town (1978)
Not a Station but a Place (1979)
As They Were (1982)
Sister Age (1983)
Spirits of the Valley (1985) (another extremely rare volume)
Dubious Honors (1988)
The Boss Dog: A Story of Provence (1990) (a novel)
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (1991)
To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908 - 1929 (1992)
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 (1993)
Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 (1995)
A Life in Letters(1997)
From the Journals of M.F.K. Fisher (1999)