M.F.K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens by Joan Reardon

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  • Shelmar on June 29, 2023

    Pleasant read, but doesn't add much more than the Alice Waters blurb. Keep it simple Mary Frances.

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  • ISBN 10 0520261682
  • ISBN 13 9780520261686
  • Published Jul 08 2008
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 184
  • Language English
  • Edition 0
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of California Press

Publishers Text

From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans, interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated with original watercolors, is a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's life as it unfolded in those homey settings—from Fisher's childhood in Whittier, California, to the kitchens of Dijon, where she developed her taste for French foods and wines; from the idyllic kitchen at Le Paquis to the isolation of her home in Hemet, California; and finally to her last days in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. M.F.K. Fisher was a solitary cook who interpreted the scenario of a meal in her own way, and M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans provides a deeply personal glimpse of a woman who continues to mystify even as she commands our attention.

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