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An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher
22.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, 'a Russian hors d'oeuvre', An Alphabet for Gourmets takes us through a selection of food essays by the incomparable M. F. K. Fisher, alighting on long-time obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions to wholly charming effect.
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher
19.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared #65533; la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found the ...Show more
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji; M. F. K. Fisher (Introduction by); Ruth Reichl (Foreword by); Yoshiki Tsuji
79.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
When it was first published, Japanese Cooking- A Simple Art changed the way the culinary world viewed Japanese cooking, moving it from obscure ethnic food to haute cuisine.Twenty-five years later, much has changed. Japanese food is a favorite of diners around the world. Not only is sushi as much a part ...Show more
LONG AGO IN FRANCE : THE YEARS IN DIJON by FISHER M.F.K.
13.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
In 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRANCE is Fisher's exquisitely evocative, deliciously candid memoir of her three-year stay in Dijon. It is ...Show more
Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Fisher's memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,' and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
The Art of Eating (50th Anniversary edition) by M. F. K. Fisher; Joan Reardon
37.95 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
RUTH REICHL "Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her." JULIA CHILD "How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome ...Show more
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K Fisher
19.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger.
The Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Susan Harper and Joe Kelly, in love and hitchhiking through Europe, never want this perfect, passionate summer to end. It is the late 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin. But these tiresome strictures are swept away when they arrive at La Prairie, the elegant haven on ...Show more
Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employ ...Show more
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