Culinary Memoirs: What’s the Point?
They usually start by describing a kitchen from that vast desert common to all of us: memory. Filled with nostalgia, …
Tag Archives: M. F. K. Fisher
Becoming a Writer
It’s funny how things work out. You pick up a book in a bookstore or a friend presses you to …
Pilgrymes, Passing to and Fro: Chaucer Got it Right
Springtime stirs up feelings of wanderlust in me, banishing the tiresome plague of cabin fever. I want to throw a …
Aix-en-Provence, and the Questions of Exile
I have been reading food writer MFK Fisher’s book about Aix-en-Provence – Map of Another Town (1964) – written about her …
Parsleyed Ham and Kitchen Breezes: The Letters of M. F. K. Fisher and Julia Child
Sometimes words, both spoken and written, take on terrible power. Use the wrong word and, at the sound, someone’s heart …
Dining Alone – Not the Loneliest Number that You’ll Ever Do: Just Ask Louis XIV
King Louis XIV did it. M. F. K. Fisher did it. The faceless man in Edward Hopper’s painting, “Nighthawks,” did …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
A Victorian M. F. K. Fisher? Maybe. Certainly M. F. K. Fisher knew of Elizabeth Pennell, for she says in …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: M. F. K. FISHER
Anyone who reveres food and eats oysters, who yearns for security and longs for love, and who seeks out experiences and thinks much must discover M. F. K. Fisher. Just who was M. F. K. Fisher and why did James Beard, that gentle giant of the food world, call her a national treasure? And why did John Updike refer to her as “the poet of the appetites”?
Suffering — Sometimes it’s Just About Food and Sometimes Not
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~~ Winston Churchill ~~ Suffering? …
Pass the Nostalgia, and Nix the Organics
I’ll be blunt: I like my food with a heaping handful of nostalgic romanticism. Yes, there are those who claim …
