"Serve It Forth" 1937 Fisher, m.f.k.

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Not A Cookery Book, But A Book For Everyone Who Enjoys Eating

FISHER, M.F.K.

[253] pp.

Hamish Hamilton, Publisher

8 … more Not A Cookery Book, But A Book For Everyone Who Enjoys Eating

FISHER, M.F.K.

[253] pp.

Hamish Hamilton, Publisher

8 1/4" x 5 7/8"

1937

In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew. less