The Art of Eating

by Fisher, M. F. K.; Reardon, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780764542619
• ISBN10: 0764542613
• Edition: 50th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-05
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

RUTH REICHL "Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her." JULIA CHILD "How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome opinions on food and those who produce it, comment upon it, and consume it are as apt today as they were several decades ago, when she composed them. Why did she choose food and hunger she was asked, and she replied, 'When I write about hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth, and the love of it . . . and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied.' This is the stuff we need to hear, and to hear again and again." ALCIE WATERS "This comprehensive volume should be required reading for every cook. It defines in a sensual and beautiful way the vital relationship between food and culture."

Author Biography

Mary Frances Kennedy (M.F.K.) Fisher is revered as one of America's best food writers. Her personalized essays on the pleasures of cooking and eating made her famous. Her most popular books—Serve It Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, and An Alphabet for Gourmets—were bound into one volume—The Art of Eating—in 1954. In 1990, The Art of Eating received the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame Award.

Table of Contents

The Art of Eating: In Celebration	p. x
Thoughts About M. F. K. Fisher and Her Work	p. xvi
One More Time	p. xxvi
Appreciation	p. xxviii
Introduction	p. xxx
Serve It Forth
To Begin	p. 5
When a Man Is Small	p. 7
Greek Honey and the Hon-Zo (3000 B.C.-100 A.D.--Egypt, the Orient, and Greece)	p. 12
The Curious Nose	p. 17
Let the Sky Rain Potatoes	p. 22
Borderland	p. 26
Garum (100 A.D.-400 A.D.--Rome)	p. 29
Fifty Million Snails	p. 34
Meals for Me	p. 40
Dark Ages and the Men of God (1000 A.D.-1400 A.D.--Europe)	p. 45
I Arise Resigned	p. 47
In Sinistra Parte, Johannus Baptista (1100 A.D.-1450 A.D.--England)	p. 52
Pity the Blind in Palate	p. 57
A Pigges Pettie Toes (Elizabethan England)	p. 60
The Standing and the Waiting	p. 64
Catherine's Lonesome Cooks (1533 A.D.-1810 A.D.--France)	p. 75
Two Birds Without a Branch	p. 80
The Pale Yellow Glove	p. 83
The Brothers	p. 89
Set-piece for a Fishing Party (1810 A.D.-1900 A.D.--France)	p. 91
On Dining Alone
Sing of Dinner in a Dish	p. 100
Shell-Shock and Richard the Third (1900 A.D.--Europe and America)	p. 107
The Social Status of a Vegetable	p. 111
Cesar	p. 116
To End	p. 121
Consider The Gyster
Love and Death Among the Molluscs	p. 125
A Supper to Sleep On	p. 129
R is for Oyster	p. 135
The Well-dressed Oyster	p. 139
Take 300 Clean Oysters	p. 144
A Lusty Bit of Nourishment	p. 146
Pearls Are Not Good to Eat	p. 160
Those Were Happy Days	p. 166
Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup	p. 170
Love Was the Pearl	p. 175
My Country, 'Tis of Thee	p. 178
As Luscious as Locusts	p. 181
How To Cook A Wolf
Introduction to Revised edition	p. 187
How to Be Sage Without Hemlock	p. 189
How to Catch the Wolf	p. 195
How to Distribute Your Virtue	p. 198
How to Boil Water	p. 207
How to Greet the Spring	p. 223
How Not to Boil an Egg	p. 229
How to Keep Alive	p. 240
How to Rise Up Like New Bread	p. 245
How to Be Cheerful Though Starving	p. 252
How to Carve the Wolf	p. 257
How to Make a Pigeon Cry	p. 277
How to Pray for Peace	p. 286
How to Be Content with a Vegetable Love	p. 296
How to Make a Great Show	p. 300
How to Have a Sleek Pelt	p. 305
How to Comfort Sorrow	p. 310
How to Be a Wise Man	p. 320
How to Lure the Wolf	p. 323
How to Drink to the Wolf	p. 329
How Not to Be an Earthworm	p. 335
How to Practice True Economy	p. 343
Conclusion	p. 350
The Gastronomical Me
Foreword	p. 353
The Measure of My Powers	p. 354
A Thing Shared	p. 356
The Measure of My Powers	p. 359
The Measure of My Powers	p. 364
The First Oyster	p. 368
The Measure of My Powers	p. 378
The Measure of My Powers	p. 382
Sea Change	p. 385
The Measure of My Powers	p. 393
To Feed Such Hunger	p. 408
The Measure of My Powers	p. 419
Noble and Enough	p. 427
The Measure of My Powers	p. 435
The Measure of My Powers	p. 446
Sea Change	p. 455
Sea Change	p. 463
Sea Change	p. 469
Define This Word	p. 474
The Measure of My Powers	p. 483
Once I Dreamed	p. 501
I Remember Three Restaurants	p. 502
Sea Change	p. 510
The Lemming to the Sea	p. 518
The Flaw	p. 526
The Measure of My Powers	p. 536
Feminine Ending	p. 552
An Alphabet For Gourmets
Foreword	p. 575
A is for dining Alone	p. 577
B is for Bachelors	p. 584
C is for Cautious	p. 589
D is for Dining out	p. 594
E is for Exquisite	p. 600
F is for Family	p. 605
G is for Gluttony	p. 613
H is for Happy	p. 618
I is for Innocence	p. 623
J is for Juvenile dining	p. 628
K is for Kosher	p. 634
L is for Literature	p. 640
M is for Monastic	p. 645
N is for Nautical	p. 650
O is for Ostentation	p. 658
P is for Peas	p. 663
Q is for Quantity	p. 670
R is for Romantic	p. 678
S is for Sad	p. 682
T is for Turbot	p. 687
U is for Universal	p. 693
V is for Venality	p. 701
W is for Wanton	p. 706
X is for Xanthippe	p. 713
Y is for Yak	p. 720
Z is for Zakuski	p. 727
From A to Z: The Perfect Dinner	p. 736
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