In the following review, Woods offers enthusiastic praise for Serve It Forth.
This is a book about food; but though food is universal, this book is unique. The first adjective for Serve It Forth mu...
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In the following essay, Hawthorne reflects upon Fisher's life and career, emphasizing the importance of sensual experience and memory in her writing.
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's jus...
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Wineapple is an American educator, critic, and biographer. In the following review of To Begin Again, she provides an account of her personal acquaintance with Fisher and an overview of the author�...
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In the following review of How to Cook a Wolf, the critic praises Fisher's highly informative and vivacious writing style.
If the wolf is snuffling at the keyhole—well, it's po...
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In the following review, Chase offers a mixed assessment of Not Now but Now.
At first careless glance one might wonder why the author of How to Cook a Wolf and other books of culinary exoticism sho...
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An American novelist, journalist, and critic, Stout was best known as the author of the popular "Nero Wolfe" detective mysteries. In the following review of An Alphabet for Gourmets, he ...
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Below, Stout praises The Art of Eating, commenting on the skill and occasional eccentricity of Fisher's writing.
Someone has said of Casanova's Memoirs that it is a wonderful book abo...
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Morris is an English journalist, travel writer, and autobiographer. In the following review, she extols A Considerable Town as an exceptionally perceptive portrait of the French city of Marseille.
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Sokolov is an American critic, cookbook author, novelist, and translator. In the following review of As They Were, he presents an overview of Fisher's career and considers her to be a major Ame...
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In the following review, Taliaferro assesses Sister Age as an artful though uneven collection of meditations on aging.
To describe M. F. K. Fisher as the doyenne of food writers would be an absurd ...
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In the following essay, Benfey offers an appreciation of Fisher's career, focusing on the autobiographical and "American" qualities of her writing.
If you go to a library to lo...
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When M.F.K. Fisher wrote about food, she wanted to do more than simply describe her subject.She wanted readers to live the experience through her words. There's her detailed discussion of toasting ...
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Irma Wolfson answered the phone one day at the first bookstore she worked in, and a male voice asked, "Do you carry adult books?"Thinking he meant books for adult readers as opposed to ...
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The Coast of Akron, by Adrienne Miller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $25.The trouble is that Ms. Miller can write: She has a voice, as well as a fine comic sense of madness and an air of d...
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Critical Review by Katherine Woods
Author M.F.K. Fisher Cooked Up Good Food Stories
