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M. F. K. Fisher (1908–1992)

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Born July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan, M.F.K Fisher was raised primarily in Whittier, California, where she enjoyed cooking meals for her family. Encouraged in literary pursuits by her parents, she combined her favorite pastimes-cooking and writing-and began writing about cooking as early as 1929 mehr anzeigen when she moved to Dijon, France, with her first husband, Alfred Fisher. Fisher was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Dijon. She has written under the names Mary Frances Parrish, Victoria Bern, and Victoria Berne. A prolific author, her work is primarily autobiography and memoir. Her long list of publications includes Dubious Honors (1988) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1945, (1993). She also contributed articles to widely known magazines, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Gourmet. Fisher died of Parkinson's disease on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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(eng) MFK Fisher and husband Dillwyn Parrish co-wrote the novel "[Touch and Go]" as Victoria Berne.

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Werke von M. F. K. Fisher

The Gastronomical Me (1989) 613 Exemplare
How to Cook a Wolf (1942) 594 Exemplare
With Bold Knife and Fork (1969) 390 Exemplare
Two Towns in Provence (1983) 390 Exemplare
Sister Age (1983) 359 Exemplare
As They Were (1982) 357 Exemplare
An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949) 271 Exemplare
Serve It Forth (1937) 230 Exemplare
Among Friends (1971) 213 Exemplare
To Begin Again (1992) 152 Exemplare
Boss Dog: A Story of Provence (1989) 112 Exemplare
Not Now, but Now (1947) 102 Exemplare
Love in a Dish and Other Pieces (2011) 96 Exemplare
Dubious Honors (1988) 75 Exemplare
The Theoretical Foot (2016) 43 Exemplare
A Considerable Town (1978) 40 Exemplare
In My Mother's Kitchen: 25 Writers on Love, Cooking, and Family (2006) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
M.F.K. Fisher's Provence (2015) 14 Exemplare
Two Kitchens in Provence (1999) 9 Exemplare
Spirits of the Valley (1985) 4 Exemplare
The Standing and the Waiting (1985) 4 Exemplare
McCalls 1971.12 1 Exemplar
Lears 1990.06 1 Exemplar
Life 1945.09.24 1 Exemplar
McCalls 1956.10 1 Exemplar
McCalls 1970.01 1 Exemplar
McCalls 1971.09 1 Exemplar
Sonoma 2013.Summer 1 Exemplar
Vogue 1948.07 1 Exemplar
Vogue 1972.03.01 1 Exemplar
Vogue 1979.11 1 Exemplar
Westways 1935.02 1 Exemplar
Westways 1978.09 1 Exemplar
Westways 1979.06 1 Exemplar
Westways 1979.10 1 Exemplar
Westways 1980.02 1 Exemplar
ZYZZYVA 1985.12 1 Exemplar
Omni 1989.10 1 Exemplar
Out West 1967.Fall 1 Exemplar
Pageant 1950.10 1 Exemplar
Saga 1962.03 1 Exemplar
Harpers 1995.08 1 Exemplar
Coronet 1944.02 1 Exemplar
California 1988.03 1 Exemplar
Coronet 1943.06 1 Exemplar
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Coronet 1944.10 1 Exemplar
Coronet 1944.11 1 Exemplar
Esquire 1970.08 1 Exemplar
Esquire 1975.12 1 Exemplar
California 1985.06 1 Exemplar
Little Fishes 1 Exemplar
Aix-en-Provence 1 Exemplar
Cesar 1 Exemplar
Women & Fiction 2 1 Exemplar
People Ask Me 1 Exemplar
Milk Toast 1 Exemplar
About Cats 1 Exemplar
I Was Really Very Hungry [short story] — Autor — 1 Exemplar
Marseille (2016) 1 Exemplar
Harpers 1937.04 1 Exemplar
Harpers 1945.10 1 Exemplar
Holiday 1956.03 1 Exemplar
Holiday 1957.11 1 Exemplar
Holiday 1969.11 1 Exemplar
Harpers 1937.03 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 1949.04 1 Exemplar
Ford Times 1984.02 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 1941.09 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 1942.05 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 1948.08 1 Exemplar
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Gourmet 1957.01 1 Exemplar
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Gourmet 1978.05 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 1992.09 1 Exemplar
Gourmet 2001.09 1 Exemplar

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Physiologie des Geschmacks oder Betrachtungen über das höhere Tafelvergnügen (1825) — Translator & Annotations, einige Ausgaben1,521 Exemplare
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Mitwirkender — 1,378 Exemplare
Das Alice B. Toklas Kochbuch. Kochen für Gertrude Stein und ihre Gäste (1954) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben737 Exemplare
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Mitwirkender — 536 Exemplare
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (1980) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben523 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Mitwirkender — 412 Exemplare
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Mitwirkender — 298 Exemplare
Brother Juniper's Bread Book: Slow-rise As Method And Metaphor (1991) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben213 Exemplare
Square Meals (1984) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben202 Exemplare
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Mitwirkender — 192 Exemplare
The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life (1962) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben179 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Mitwirkender — 142 Exemplare
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Mitwirkender — 132 Exemplare
The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Mitwirkender — 88 Exemplare
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Mitwirkender — 82 Exemplare
Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel (2001) — Mitwirkender — 80 Exemplare
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Mitwirkender — 75 Exemplare
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (1978) — Mitwirkender — 73 Exemplare
A Commonplace Book of Cookery (1975) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben40 Exemplare
Great Vegetables From the Great Chefs (1990) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben36 Exemplare
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
Travelers' Tales PROVENCE : True Stories (2003) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
My Paris (1972) — Einführung — 17 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 68, Spring 1992 (1992) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird (2023) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Continent's End: A Collection of California Writing (1944) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Bonanza Banquets (1950) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Not a Station but a Place (1979) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben7 Exemplare
Architectural Digest 1999 April (1999) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
The Haunted Dancers (1967) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
The Journal of Gastronomy, Volume 1, Summer 1984 — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1964/04 — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature (2010) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1984/04 — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Architectural Digest 1989 May — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Argosy January 1950 (1950) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
The Atlantic, October 1946 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
'47 The Magazine of the Year (#11, November) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Husbands and Lovers (1949) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
New Yorker 1966.09.24 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
America Illustrated 1974.10 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1947.04 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1944.11 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1950.02 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1949.01 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1945.05 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1950.04 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1955.08 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1944.03 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1943.10 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Atlantic 1937.06 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Architectural Digest 1989 July — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Architectural Digest 1989 March — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Architectural Digest 1980 July — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
American Way 1991.09.01 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
American Health 1991.July/August — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Consider the Oyster - The Prototype Press in Fine Press Forum (Dezember 2021)
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Clear-eyed evocation of a long-gone France. Read in Dijon, walked down her street, saw the same buildings, some 80 years on.
 
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fmclellan | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 23, 2024 |
"L'huître mène une vie terrible, mais palpitante." Comment résister à un tel incipit ?
 
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marievictoire | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 30, 2023 |
 
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StigAllan | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 11, 2023 |
This is a collection of essays written by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher over the course of her life. They are personal introspection on the topics of her childhood, marriages, people she has known and places she has lived; all around the theme of food and enjoying food with those one loves.
If you have read her work before, you know that her use of language in writing is masterful and evocative. If you have not, you will find that reading her essays is an immersive and transformative experience.… (mehr)
 
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MrsLee | Sep 28, 2023 |

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