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 …
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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 …
Snowbound … The Poetry, The Food, The Reality
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems now here to …
Cooking: The Theory, with a Little Help from Chimps
Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are. ~~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ~~ As Alice …
Cooking with Wolves (Or, Keeping the Wolf Away from the Door)
There’s a whining at the threshold, There’s a scratching at the floor. To work! To work! In Heaven’s name! The …
