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Summary: Can you eat, read, laugh and cry at the same time?
Review: I put this book on the shelf for a number of years. Maybe I subconsciously knew you have to wait to be more mature, both in life and cooking, before you can truly savor the joys of MFK Fisher's beautifully flavorful writing and recipes (The Prune Roast...mmm...). Her memories of eating fresh peas with her family in France had me choking back tears, and her recollections of meals and love will move even the most churlish among us. Please read this book, even if you have to read it in small bits and chunks. She was one of the greats
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Summary: A Desert Island Book
Review: If I had to choose only ten books that I could read (over and over, hopefully) for the rest of my life this would probably be at the top of that list. I know that I should list the Holy Bible first, but I am certain that I would read this far more often.
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Summary: A Desert Island Book
Review: If I had to choose only ten books that I could read (over and over, hopefully) for the rest of my life this would probably be at the top of that list. I know that I should list the Holy Bible first, but I am certain that I would read this far more often.
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Summary: One of my all-time favorite writers
Review: If you haven¹t yet read M.F.K. Fisher, you¹re in for a treat. M.F.K. Fisher¹s writing is an absolute delight. She was brainy and intellectual, but also charming and sensual. I really like the ³1940s² style of her writing - chatty, intimate, and confidential. Some chapters in The Art of Eating are short-story gems. The Art of Eating is a classic collection. You can¹t lose with it
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Summary: fabulous
Review: Ihave to say that this book rates as one of my favorite books. Ms Fisher writes with so much wit and intelligence. This book (or set of books really),is more than a book about eating, its a book about everything important - love, good times, bad times, and about the art of making the very best of what you have.
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Summary: And Now for Something That's a Complete Masterpiece
Review: In my imagination, in Fisher's mind, everyone from Antoine Careme to Thomas Keller lived together in a big old dilapidated farmhouse in the French countryside. They are all sitting in the shade one buttery-hued afternoon, talking about "Why did the chicken cross the road?":Antoine Careme: It was trussed onto the back of a rabbit. I call it, "Chicken a la Peugeot".
Vatel: Leave it there and I'll build a feast scene around it.
Jean Brillat-Savarin: It was trying to escape the lawyer that was crossing the road to sue it.
Fanny Farmer: It''s a one-trick chicken, all it can do is cross the road.
August Escoffier: (After having too much pastis): Let's put the dead clucker in a bucket of horseradish sauce and make Double-Toilet Chicken for the Emperor.
Julia Child: If it's being carried across the road on a serving platter and drops onto the road, simply pick it up, brush it off lightly and serve.
Alice Waters: It was free-ranging, got a little disoriented from the aromatherapy it had received earlier, and entered an erroneous zone.
Thomas Keller: I see Sun-dried Chicken Anus with Organic Guacamole Droppings. Forgive me if this is some kind of Jesus, Moses, and Elvis scenario gone wrong, but Hail Mary (Fisher), this book is a near-religion experience for gastroholics. The culinary writing stylings of M.F.K.Fisher are art, the food memory landscape is art, she could even make a description of a rubber chicken read like 20" of curated treasure. The Art of Eating is the also the Art of Reading. Not a recipe compendium, but a food enjoyment memoire. If you read slowly, deliciously-enough, she invites you to participate by asking yourself, " What was MY best memory of food from childhood", "What was the best dinner invitation I was present at", "What would BE the best dinner invitation I could ever be present at" (mine might involve somebody who was going to ask me about the Mayan). Enjoy this book slowly, it's too beautiful to just wolf down.
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Summary: And Now for Something That's a Complete Masterpiece
Review: In my imagination, in Fisher's mind, everyone from Antoine Careme to Thomas Keller lived together in a big old dilapidated farmhouse in the French countryside. They are all sitting in the shade one buttery-hued afternoon, talking about "Why did the chicken cross the road?": Antoine Careme: It was trussed onto the back of a rabbit. I call it, "Chicken a la Peugeot".
Vatel: Leave it there and I'll build a feast scene around it.
Jean Brillat-Savarin: It was trying to escape the lawyer that was crossing the road to sue it.
Fanny Farmer: It''s a one-trick chicken, all it can do is cross the road.
August Escoffier: (After having too much pastis): Let's put the dead clucker in a bucket of horseradish sauce and make Double-Toilet Chicken for the Emperor.
Julia Child: If it's being carried across the road on a serving platter and drops onto the road, simply pick it up, brush it off lightly and serve.
Alice Waters: It was free-ranging, got a little disoriented from the aromatherapy it had received earlier, and entered an erroneous zone.
Thomas Keller: I see Sun-dried Chicken Anus with Organic Guacamole Droppings. Forgive me if this is some kind of Jesus, Moses, and Elvis scenario gone wrong, but Hail Mary (Fisher), this book is a near-religion experience for gastroholics. The culinary writing stylings of M.F.K.Fisher are art, the food memory landscape is art, she could even make a description of a rubber chicken read like 20" of curated treasure. The Art of Eating is the also the Art of Reading. Not a recipe compendium, but a food enjoyment memoire. If you read slowly, deliciously-enough, she invites you to participate by asking yourself, " What was MY best memory of food from childhood", "What was the best dinner invitation I was present at", "What would BE the best dinner invitation I could ever be present at" (mine might involve somebody who was going to ask me about the Mayan). Enjoy this book slowly, it's too beautiful to just wolf down.
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Summary: Everyone should take the time to savor this book's delights.
Review: Looking for some food for thought? How about some thoughts on food? M.F.K. Fisher's compendium of essays in the "Art of Eating" is sure to keep you entertained for months, and provide you with party tidbits for even longer. I read this book over the course of three months, an essay or two at a time. It's not just about food, but about the people who love to eat good food, to make it, to grow it, to harvest it, to travel in search of it. It's about some wonderful places in the world, some now long gone, or spoiled, and some still well worth a visit. You'll find that you remember some of M.F.K. Fisher's stories long after you've put the book down. You'll tell these stories to others and win smiles and laughter. You'll haul the book out and read aloud from it. Your friends will ask to borrow your copy. You will tell them to get their own.
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Summary: Everyone should take the time to savor this book's delights.
Review: Looking for some food for thought? How about some thoughts on food? M.F.K. Fisher's compendium of essays in the "Art of Eating" is sure to keep you entertained for months, and provide you with party tidbits for even longer.
I read this book over the course of three months, an essay or two at a time. It's not just about food, but about the people who love to eat good food, to make it, to grow it, to harvest it, to travel in search of it. It's about some wonderful places in the world, some now long gone, or spoiled, and some still well worth a visit.
You'll find that you remember some of M.F.K. Fisher's stories long after you've put the book down. You'll tell these stories to others and win smiles and laughter. You'll haul the book out and read aloud from it. Your friends will ask to borrow your copy.
You will tell them to get their own.
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Summary: Astounding tastes and utter decadence of food and life.
Review: MFK Fisher brought to the front the simplicity of a baked potato and turned it into a ravishment. She does no less in her description of every preparation, meal, food, wine, and people who eat and cook. When you finish this book, try to resist the urge to bake a peach pie, take along fresh thick, cream and go eat it out in the countryside... If you're a foodie, grab a napkin when you pick this book up.
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