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Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets
Contributor(s): Fisher, M. F. K. (Author), Fussell, Betty (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1640090835     ISBN-13: 9781640090835
Publisher: Catapult
OUR PRICE:   $18.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Cooking | Essays & Narratives
- Cooking | History
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
Dewey: 808.803
LCCN: 2018008260
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 400 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
M.F.K Fisher's latest excursion into the art or science of gastronomy is more an anthology of the finest writing on the subject than strictly a text of her own composition . . . A royal feast, indeed! --The New York Times

Betty Fussell--winner of the James Beard Foundation's journalism award, and whose essays on food, travel, and the arts have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Saveur, and Vogue--is the perfect writer to introduce M.F.K Fisher's Here Let Us Feast, first published in 1946. The author of Eat, Live, Love, Die has penned a brilliant introduction to this fabulous anthology of gastronomic writing, selected and with commentary from the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.

The celebrated author of such books as The Art of Eating, The Cooking of Provincial France, and With Bold Knife and Fork, Fisher knows how to prepare a feast of reading as no other. Excerpting descriptions of bountiful meals from classic works of British and American literature, Fisher weaves them into a profound discussion of feasting.

She also traces gluttony through the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and claims that the story of a nation's life is charted by its gastronomy. M.F.K. Fisher has arranged everything perfectly, and the result is a succession of unforgettable courses that will entice the most reluctant epicure.

Contributor Bio(s): Fussell, Betty: - BETTY FUSSELL was born in Southern California in 1927. Her most recent book is Eat, Live, Love, Die. She was recently celebrated, along with other winners of the Silver Spoon Award, by Food Arts magazine.Fisher, M. F. K.: - MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER was the preeminent American food writer. She wrote thirty-three books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Her first book, Serve It Forth, was published in 1937. Fisher's books are an amalgam of food literature, travel, and memoir.