In one of her most celebrated books, the doyenne of food writers offers us more than 140 of her favourite and most famous recipes. Here are dishes for every course of every meal - from 'Teasers and Titbits', through 'Some Seeds of this Planet' to 'A Plethora of Puddings'. Whether simple or esoteric, all are served with an inimitable mixture of wit, anecdote and practicality. (20010730)
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"[Fisher] writes as one intelligent adult to another--practically, often profoundly, and always beautifully. If eating means more to you than steak drowned in bottled sauces, then she's what you've been looking for." --"The San Francisco Examiner"
"If I were still teaching high school English, I'd use Fisher's books to show how to write simply, how to enjoy food and drink, but, most of all, how to enjoy life. Her books are one feast after another." --Frank McCourt, author of "Angela's Ashes" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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By Neil French
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In this age of cook-hysteria, and the constant search for new and generally worse 'stars of the saucepan', the fact that an entire series of the best books ever written on cooking and life is going slowly out of print tells you more about publishers than you wanted to know. I guess the problem is, the author's dead, and is thus unlikely to have a TV series.
Buy this for starters, and harangue the publishers to release, at the very least, "The Art of Eating"...the best book ever written about food, and, as I said, about life. That's a five-star job, and more.
Buy this for starters, and harangue the publishers to release, at the very least, "The Art of Eating"...the best book ever written about food, and, as I said, about life. That's a five-star job, and more.
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A memoir and cookbook both
17 Aug 2000
By Sophia
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"With Bold Knife and Fork" was the last book of culinary and writing great M.F.K. Fisher to focus solely on food. This book is a wonderful collection of recipes, with an especially interesting section on vegetables; and also contains humorous and moving anecdotes, written in excellent, finished prose. Only M.F.K. Fisher can make eating mashed potatoes with ketchup sound like a religious ritual; or make you laugh when discussing how a romance came to an end when a snoopy, ill-informed potential partner ruined a sauce for a dinner she was making. This is a terrific book for diehard Fisher fans, but also a very good, intelligent, and amusing cookbook in its own right.
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My favorite Fisher book
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Fisher fans know of her way with evocative prose, but she's damn funny as well; that's why this book is my favorite. She is in top form in this one, and her tendency to be a little, dare I say it, pretentious is less evident!
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