Among Friends

by Fisher, M. F. K.

• ISBN13: 9781593760243
• ISBN10: 1593760248
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

Among Friends is M. F. K. Fisher's fascinating memoir of her childhood in Whittier, California. In sharing these memorable and moving portraits of her family and of the town, we are given an enchanting glimpse into the early life of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers. Book jacket.

Author Biography

In a career that extended from the late 1930s to her death in 1992, M. F. K. Fisher wrote twenty-six books. Widely known as the woman who elevated food writing to a literary art, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received lifetime achievement awards from the James Beard Foundation and The American Institute of Wine and Food

Table of Contents

Prologue: Child of an Inner ``Ghetto''	3	(18)
Part I The Family
Then Begin Again	21	(7)
A Footnote on the Scabrous Possibilities of the Most Innocent of Publications, Such as ``The Miriam Cook Book''	28	(4)
The Predilection for Lame Ducks	32	(24)
The Bodies and Otherwise	56	(6)
Love Blemished but Abiding	62	(35)
The First and Best Batties	97	(9)
Our ``Girls'' and a Few Ladies	106	(15)
Part II The Town
Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War	121	(16)
Culture and Music and All That	137	(10)
Lightened Heart and Quickened Energies	147	(13)
Dance of the Slow Learner	160	(17)
The Best View	177	(11)
A Palace Incident	188	(10)
A Pagan Ornament	198	(7)
The Haunts of Sin and Iniquity	205	(10)
Part III . . . And Beyond
Fugues and Evasions	215	(16)
Flora and a Few Fauna	231	(20)
A Footnote on Fauna, Largely Secret	251	(9)
The Separation of the Senses, or Not	260	(19)
Notes on Following the Gleam	279	(13)
Streets of Gold Forsworn	292	(8)
Petitions, Manifestoes, Broadsides, and Such	300