Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) 1908-1992

Overview

Works:	447 works in 922 publications in 10 languages and 29,269 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Fiction Biographies Cookbooks Short stories Recipes Interviews Anecdotes Television series Television interviews
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Other, Correspondent, Author of introduction
Classifications:	PS3511.I7428, 641.092

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about M. F. K Fisher

Long ago in France : the years in Dijon by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
The arrangement by Ashley Warlick( Book )
Provence, 1970 : M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr( Book )
Among friends by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
To begin again : stories and memoirs, 1908-1929 by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

Last house : reflections, dreams, and observations 1943-1991 by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
Stay me, oh comfort me : journals and stories, 1933-1941 by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
A considerable town by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
Poet of the appetites : the lives and loves of M.F.K. Fisher by Joan Reardon( Book )
Two towns in Provence by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
A life in letters : correspondence, 1929-1991 by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
Map of another town : a memoir of Provence by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
An extravagant hunger : the passionate years of M.F.K. Fisher by Anne Zimmerman( Book )
M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table by Joan Reardon( Book )
A welcoming life : the MFK Fisher scrapbook by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
M.F.K. Fisher among the pots and pans : celebrating her kitchens by Joan Reardon( Book )
The measure of her powers : an M.F.K. Fisher reader by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
The gastronomical me by M. F. K Fisher( Book )
As they were by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

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Most widely held works by M. F. K Fisher

The art of eating by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

30 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 1,574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

More than 50 years after M.F.K. Fisher logged her musings and memories on food, love, and life, her nuanced stories still entertain and enlighten. If you haven't yet read Fisher's work, you will thoroughly enjoy discovering its variety, richness, and honesty. If it has been a while since you last delved into her writing, you will be captivated once again. - Cover

Sister Age by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

17 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and held by 1,369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Moment of wisdom -- Answer in the affirmative -- The weather within -- The unswept emptiness -- Another love story -- The second time around -- the lost, strayed, stolen -- the reunion -- the oldest man -- a question answered -- diplomatic, retired -- mrs. teeter's tomato jar -- a kitchen allegory -- a delayed meeting -- notes on a necessary pact

The physiology of taste : or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy. by Brillat-Savarin( Book )

28 editions published between 1949 and 2011 in English and held by 1,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's masterpiece is a historical, philosophical and epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical."--Page 4 of cover

The cooking of provincial France by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

9 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in English and held by 1,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discusses the cuisine of the provinces of France and provides many traditional recipes from these regions

The boss dog by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

12 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and French and held by 858 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir and part fiction, this adventure is presided over by an aloof and proprietary mongrel, the Boss Dog, who frequents the young family's favorite cafe

As they were by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

6 editions published between 1982 and 2011 in English and held by 667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This marvelous collection of autobiographical essays by the celebrated, much-adored Fisher covers her life, family, food and adventures

How to cook a wolf by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

24 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 612 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

M.F.K. Fisher's guide to living happily even in trying times, which was first published during the Second World War in the days of ration cards; includes more than seventy recipes based on food staples and features sections such as "How to Keep Alive" and "How to Comfort Sorrow."

Here let us feast : a book of banquets by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

4 editions published between 1946 and 1986 in English and held by 551 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With bold knife and fork by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

19 editions published between 1969 and 2010 in English and Dutch and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author shares her kitchen philosophy and offers advice on preparing appetizers, soups, casseroles, and other dishes

A world of ideas( Visual )

3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In wide-ranging conversations, thirteen celebrated literary figures from six nations discuss their work, politics, morals, and the future of American society

The cooking of provincial France by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

45 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in 3 languages and held by 447 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

French cooking as it has evolved in the provinces is, to a reasonable degree, anyone's to command. Given the intrinsic wish to continue as long as possible, in this chancy world, the rituals of eating in order to live, we can all follow with rare enjoyment the patterns of people who for centuries have managed to subsist on what their nearest hills and brooks and meadows provide for them

Not now but now : a novel by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

15 editions published between 1947 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 436 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Follows the course of Jennie, a willful, wandering woman, a lovely enchantress calculating the havoc caused by her life of danger and license."

A cordiall water : a garland of odd & old receipts to assuage the ills of man&beast by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

16 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in English and French and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of odd and old receipts to cure the ills of people and animals

The theoretical foot : a novel by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

8 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Americans Sara Porter and Tim Garton entertain beautiful and talented visitors at their farmhouse in neutral 1938 Switzerland, as war in Europe gathers

Dubious honors by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

3 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

My Paris by Maurice Chevalier( Book )

1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Serve it forth by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

20 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 364 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher est aimée et admirée pour son originalité et pour sa fantaisie autant que pour son intelligence et son style. Le poète W H. Auden n'hésita pas à la reconnaître, dès ses débuts, comme "la plus grande styliste de langue anglaise". Elle fut aussi la traductrice en anglais de la Physiologie du goût, de Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Son oeuvre complète est en cours de traduction. Mille anecdotes aussi divertissantes qu'appétissantes : de la façon dont on maltraite la pomme de terre et comment on peut lui rendre sa dignité ; de la parcimonie gastronomique des Grecs de l'Antiquité, de la gloutonnerie des Romains ; sans oublier les malheureux sans papilles

A stew or a story : an assortment of short works by M.F.K. Fisher by Joan Reardon( Book )

2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A Stew or a Story covers five decades of Fisher's writing for such notable publications as Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Ladies' Home Journal, and Vogue. But collected here also are articles nearly impossible to find from lesser-known, more ephemeral magazines. Essays on people, places, and of course food, mix here with delightful fiction to become a delectable feast."--Jacket

Masters of American cookery--M.F.K. Fisher, James Andrews Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child by Betty Harper Fussell( Book )

3 editions published between 1983 and 2005 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The gastronomical me by M. F. K Fisher( Book )

7 editions published between 1943 and 2006 in English and French and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent

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