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"The best prose writer in America." --W.H. Auden
"She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better."--Clifton Fadiman
"Poet of the appetites."--John Updike
"A monument."--Julia Child
"One of the world's finest food writers and, in the eyes of many, the grand dame of gastronomy."--James Villas
"M.F.K. Fisher ... brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions."--Patricia Storace, "The New York Review of Books"
"One of my great heroes."--Jacques Pepin
"A delightful book. It is erudite and witty and experienced and young."--"The New York Times Book Review"

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Essays and anecdotes on the subject of gastronomy discuss the abuses of the potato, the furtive enjoyment of "secret eatings," and the culinary customs of ancient Greece, the Roman empire, and medieval Europe.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Great Writers of the 20th Century, 1 Jul 1999

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This first book, a collection of essays by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, offers many examples of her brilliance. Especially wonderful are "The Standing and the Waiting" and "Cesar."

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