Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) 1908-1992
Overview
| Works: | 437 works in 924 publications in 10 languages and 29,183 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Biography Fiction Biographies Cookbooks Short stories Recipes Anecdotes Records and correspondence Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc Pictorial works |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Translator, Other, Correspondent, Author of introduction |
| Classifications: | PS3511.I7428, 641.092 |
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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(
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30 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 1,572 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
30 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 1,572 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(
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17 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and held by 1,365 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
17 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and held by 1,365 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(
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29 editions published between 1949 and 2011 in English and held by 1,236 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
29 editions published between 1949 and 2011 in English and held by 1,236 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(
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9 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in English and held by 1,130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses the cuisine of the provinces of France and provides many traditional recipes from these regions
9 editions published between 1968 and 1976 in English and held by 1,130 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(
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12 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and French and held by 857 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
12 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and French and held by 857 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(
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7 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
7 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(
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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."
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(
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4 editions published between 1946 and 1986 in English and held by 550 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1946 and 1986 in English and held by 550 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With bold knife and fork by
M. F. K Fisher(
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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
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
The cooking of provincial France by
M. F. K Fisher(
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49 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in 4 languages and held by 451 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
49 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in 4 languages and held by 451 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(
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15 editions published between 1947 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 437 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."
15 editions published between 1947 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 437 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(
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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
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(
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8 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employs Fisher's characteristic sharp-eyed wit to sketch themes so outre; they may have seemed too challenging for a proper woman of her time to attempt. Set in the late 1930s,The Theoretical Foot concerns two expat American couples in Europe, tramping from country to country without sanction of marriage, this during an era when cohabitation - to say nothing of a girl's hitchhiking! -- could ruin a respectable woman's reputation for all time. As fascism spreads and war inevitably approaches, the idyll of a beautiful life of love and freedom from convention is also threatened from within, as the man in one of the couples falls gravely ill with a rare circulatory disease. And indeed, Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher and Dillwyn Parrish had been forced to return to Depression-era California where she was struggling to support them with her writing. Parrish - like the character in the story -- was afflicted with Buerger's disease, for which there was only one effective painkiller, unavailable in the States. Faced with unrelieved agony and the threat of serial amputations, Parrish killed himself in August of 1941. Weeks later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the entire world was engulfed in war. Why this most autobiographical of stories was never published during Fisher's lifetime we cannot know but it may have been that it concerned itself not only with what was considered at that time to be a scandalous, licentious-seeming lifestyle but with a lost and beloved world, the European continent utterly transformed by war. And it may have been that her continued grief over her loss of the man she'd always later describe as her one great love made the book too painful for her to revisit"--
8 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employs Fisher's characteristic sharp-eyed wit to sketch themes so outre; they may have seemed too challenging for a proper woman of her time to attempt. Set in the late 1930s,The Theoretical Foot concerns two expat American couples in Europe, tramping from country to country without sanction of marriage, this during an era when cohabitation - to say nothing of a girl's hitchhiking! -- could ruin a respectable woman's reputation for all time. As fascism spreads and war inevitably approaches, the idyll of a beautiful life of love and freedom from convention is also threatened from within, as the man in one of the couples falls gravely ill with a rare circulatory disease. And indeed, Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher and Dillwyn Parrish had been forced to return to Depression-era California where she was struggling to support them with her writing. Parrish - like the character in the story -- was afflicted with Buerger's disease, for which there was only one effective painkiller, unavailable in the States. Faced with unrelieved agony and the threat of serial amputations, Parrish killed himself in August of 1941. Weeks later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the entire world was engulfed in war. Why this most autobiographical of stories was never published during Fisher's lifetime we cannot know but it may have been that it concerned itself not only with what was considered at that time to be a scandalous, licentious-seeming lifestyle but with a lost and beloved world, the European continent utterly transformed by war. And it may have been that her continued grief over her loss of the man she'd always later describe as her one great love made the book too painful for her to revisit"--
Dubious honors by
M. F. K Fisher(
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3 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
My Paris by
Maurice Chevalier(
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1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 367 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 367 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Serve it forth by
M. F. K Fisher(
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20 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 363 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
20 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 363 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(
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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
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(
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3 editions published between 1983 and 2005 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 1983 and 2005 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Funk & Wagnalls cook's and diner's dictionary : a lexicon of food, wine, and culinary terms(
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2 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The gastronomical me by
M. F. K Fisher(
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9 editions published between 1943 and 2017 in English and French and held by 320 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
9 editions published between 1943 and 2017 in English and French and held by 320 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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Related Identities
- Reardon, Joan 1930- Author Editor
- Child, Julia Author
- Time-Life Books
- Beard, James 1903-1985
- Ott, Ursula von 1767-
- Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826 Author
- Schremp, Geraldine
- Jones, Judith 1924-
- Barr, Luke Author
- Olney, Richard
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Alternative Names
Berne, Victoria
Berne Victoria 1908-1992
Fisher, M. F. K.
Fisher, M.F.K. 1908-1992
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-
Fisher, M. Frances.
Fisher, M. Frances 1908-
Fisher, M. Frances 1908-1992
Fisher, M. Frances (Mary Frances)
Fisher, M. Frances (Mary Frances), 1908-
Fisher, M. Frances (Mary Frances), 1908-1992
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy 1908-
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy 1908-1992
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy, b. 1908
Fisher, MFK
Fisher, MFK 1908-1992
Friede, Mary Frances.
Friede, Mary Frances 1908-
Friede Mary Frances 1908-1992
Kennedy Fisher, Mary Frances
Kennedy, Mary Frances Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher Amerikaans auteur (1908-1992)
M. F. K. Fisher écrivain américaine
M. F. K. Fisher escritora estadounidense
M. F. K. Fisher scrittrice statunitense
M. F. K. Fisher US-amerikanische Essayistin
M. F. K. Fisher yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija
Parrisch, Mary Frances Kennedy
Parrish, Mary Frances.
Parrish, Mary Frances 1908-
Parrish Mary Frances 1908-1992
ام. اف. کی. فیشر نویسنده آمریکایی
ماري كينيدي كاتب أمريكي
피셔, M. F. K. 1908-1992
피셔, 메리 프랜시스 케네디 1908-1992
フィッシャー, M. F. K.
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English
(328)
French (20)
German (19)
Chinese (13)
Spanish (10)
Danish (5)
Italian (5)
Japanese (2)
Portuguese (1)
Dutch (1)
French (20)
German (19)
Chinese (13)
Spanish (10)
Danish (5)
Italian (5)
Japanese (2)
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