An Alphabet for Gourmets

An Alphabet for Gourmets PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865473911
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Fisher's magic with language is intertwined with her culinary expertise to provide the perfect recipe for teaching some basic steps to satisfying one's appetite.

My Foodie ABC

My Foodie ABC PDF Author: Puck
Publisher: duopress
ISBN: 0982529570
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
C is for chanterelle mushrooms. Q is for quinoa, S is for saffron. Here is a fun and unexpected introduction to the world of food and the alphabet, featuring exotic cuisine from around the world that will delight babies and their foodie parents! Vibrant illustrations highlight terms such as farmers market, Kobe beef, pomegranate, and udon pair with fun foodie facts to make learning the alphabet easy and enriching. Readers will learn that dragon fruit tastes like a kiwi combined with a grape or pear. And did you know that the term bento box comes from the Japanese word obento, which means boxed lunches? A complete introduction to the alphabet and gastronomical terms, this unique book also includes a pronunciation guide, making it an ideal companion for food aficionados.

The Art of Eating

The Art of Eating PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0764542613
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 789

Book Description
This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me", "Serve it Forth", "How to Cook a Wolf", and "An Alphabet for Gourmets". The volume contains an array of thoughts, memories and recipes.

The Gastronomical Me

The Gastronomical Me PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865473927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Fisher identifies a variety of human cravings and the means to find nourishment in what is the most intimate of the five volumes in North Point's jacketed paperback series, now complete.

Serve It Forth

Serve It Forth PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865473690
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
This collection of entertaining anecdotes includes the abuses of the potato and how it can be dignified, social status relative to one's appreciation of vegetables, and the growth of the art of eating in ancient Greece and Rome.

Consider the Oyster

Consider the Oyster PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787201260
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
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 à la Rockefeller or au naturel—and of the pearls sometimes found therein—Fisher describes her mother’s joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls’ dorm in the 1890s, recalls her own initiation into the “strange cold succulence” of raw oysters as a young woman in Marseille and Dijon, and explores both the bivalve’s famed aphrodisiac properties and its equally notorious gut-wrenching powers. Plumbing the “dreadful but exciting” life of the oyster, Fisher invites readers to share in the comforts and delights that this delicate edible evokes, and enchants us along the way with her characteristically wise and witty prose. “Consider the Oyster marks M. F. K. Fisher’s emergence as a storyteller so confident that she can maneuver a reader through a narrative in which recipes enhance instead of interrupt the reader’s attention to the tales. She approaches a recipe as a published dream or wish, and the stories she tells here...are also stories of the pleasures and disillusionments of dreams fulfilled.”—PATRICIA STORACE, The New York Review of Books “Since Lewis Carroll no one had written charmingly about that indecisively sexed bivalve until Mrs. Fisher came along with her Consider the Oyster. Surely this will stand for some time as the most judicious treatment in English.”—CLIFFTON FADIMAN

How to Cook a Wolf

How to Cook a Wolf PDF Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865473362
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
First published in 1942 when wartime shortages were at their worst, the ever-popular How to Cook a Wolf, continues to surmount the unavoidable problem of cooking within a budget. Here is a wealth of practical and delicious ways to keep the wolf from the door.

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book PDF Author: Bill Richardson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312194406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think of their B&B as a refuge, a retreat, a haven, where folks may bring their own books or peruse the brothers' own substantial library. An antic blend of homespun and intellectual humor, Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast is a place readers will want to return to again and again.

M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans PDF Author: Joan Reardon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520261682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
"For decades, food-lovers have taken enormous pleasure in the stories, the characters and the inimitable prose style of M. F. K. Fisher. Now we discover the kitchens and the dinner tables--the very meals that inspired M. F. K. Fisher to write. In this insightful and evocative book, Joan Reardon distills Fisher's life to its culinary essence and reveals her to us anew."--Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century "Reardon's commentary reveals an intimate understanding of the personality of M. F. K. Fisher. Few who enjoy food and read M. F. K. Fisher's work do not thirst to know more about this woman, and knowing about the places she lived and cooked gives a greater understanding of her writings, her feelings, her passions and frustrations."--Jerry Anne DiVecchio, Senior Food Editor, Sunset Magazine "I've always admired M. F. K. Fisher's gastronomical ingenuity and vivid culinary imagination. In this rich portrait, Joan Reardon eloquently shares with us Mary Frances's great lesson: to cook well, you need only the most elementary kitchen, a mortar and pestle, and full awareness of your own five senses."--Alice Waters

Food and Literature

Food and Literature PDF Author: Gitanjali G. Shahani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108623441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 776

Book Description
This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avant-garde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics, and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments, and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat', it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies, and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.
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