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M.F.K. Fisher among the pots and pans : celebrating her kitchens / Joan Reardon ; foreword by Amanda Hesser.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reardon, Joan, 1930-
- Series:
- California studies in food and culture ; 22.
- California studies in food and culture ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
- Fisher, M. F. K.
- Food writers--United States--Biography.
- Food writers.
- Cooking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Whittier and Laguna Beach, 1908-1922
- II. At Boarding School, 1923-1928
- III. From Dijon to Eagle Rock, 1929-1936
- IV. At Le Paquis, 1936-1939
- V. At Bareacres, 1939-1949
- VI. California and Provence, 1949-1961
- VII. In St. Helena, 1961-1970
- VIII. Last House, 1971-1980
- IX. The Lodestar, 1981-1992
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-168).
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-27710-7
- 9786613277107
- 0-520-93477-6
- OCLC:
- 703138062
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