The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition Joan Reardon, M. F. K. Fisher

900 Pages·2007·4.68 MB·English

by  Fisher

Five Gastronomical Works
By M. F. K. FISHER
Serve It Forth
Consider The Oyster
How To Cook A Wolf
The Gastronomical Me
An Alphabet For Gourmets
Copyright © 1937, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1990, 2004 by M. F. K.
Fisher. All rights reserved.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company A compilation of
the works of M. F. K. Fisher first published in book form separately under the
titles: Serve It Forth; Consider the Oyster; How to Cook a Wolf; The
Gastronomical Me; and An Alphabet for Gourmets.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Fisher, M. F.
K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908– The art of eating / by M. F. K. Fisher ; with
an introduction by Clifton Fadiman, an appreciation by James Beard, and a
biographical essay by Joan Reardon.—50th anniversary ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-10: 0-7645-4261-3 (paperback : acid-free paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-4261-9 (paperback : acid-free paper) 1. Gastronomy. I.
Title.
TX633.F515 2004
641’.01’3—dc22
2003026124
eISBN 978-0-544-17743-7
v1.0514
Contents
THE ART OF EATING: IN CELEBRATION
THOUGHTS ABOUT M. F. K. FISHER AND HER WORK
ONE MORE TIME
APPRECIATION
INTRODUCTION
Serve It Forth
To Begin
When a Man Is Small
Greek Honey and the Hon-Zo
3000 B.C.–100 A.D.
Egypt, the Orient, and Greece
The Curious Nose
Let the Sky Rain Potatoes
Borderland
Garum
100 A.D.–400 A.D.
Rome
Fifty Million Snails
Meals for Me
Dark Ages and the Men of God
1000 A.D.–1400 A.D.
Europe
I Arise Resigned
In Sinistra Parte, Johannus Baptista
1100 A.D.–1450 A.D.
England
Pity the Blind in Palate
A Pigges Pettie Toes
Elizabethan England
The Standing and the Waiting
Catherines Lonesome Cooks
1533 A.D.–1810 A.D.
France
Two Birds Without a Branch
The Pale Yellow Glove
The Brothers
Set-piece for a Fishing Party
1810 A.D.–1900 A.D.
France
On Dining Alone
Sing of Dinner in a Dish
Shell-shock and Richard the Third
1900 A.D.––
Europe and America
The Social Status of a Vegetable
César
To End
Consider The Oyster
Love and Death Among the Molluscs
A Supper to Sleep On
R is for Oyster
The Well-dressed Oyster
Take 300 Clean Oysters
A Lusty Bit of Nourishment
Pearls Are Not Good to Eat
Those Were Happy Days
Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup
Love Was the Pearl
My Country, ’Tis of Thee
As Luscious as Locusts