M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261682
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans by : Joan Reardon

Download or read book M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans written by Joan Reardon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For decades, food-lovers have taken enormous pleasure in the stories, the characters and the inimitable prose style of M. F. K. Fisher. Now we discover the kitchens and the dinner tables--the very meals that inspired M. F. K. Fisher to write. In this insightful and evocative book, Joan Reardon distills Fisher's life to its culinary essence and reveals her to us anew."--Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century "Reardon's commentary reveals an intimate understanding of the personality of M. F. K. Fisher. Few who enjoy food and read M. F. K. Fisher's work do not thirst to know more about this woman, and knowing about the places she lived and cooked gives a greater understanding of her writings, her feelings, her passions and frustrations."--Jerry Anne DiVecchio, Senior Food Editor, Sunset Magazine "I've always admired M. F. K. Fisher's gastronomical ingenuity and vivid culinary imagination. In this rich portrait, Joan Reardon eloquently shares with us Mary Frances's great lesson: to cook well, you need only the most elementary kitchen, a mortar and pestle, and full awareness of your own five senses."--Alice Waters

M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255550
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans written by Joan Reardon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated with original watercolors, this work presents a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's life as it unfolded in the homey settings and the kitchens where she developed her taste for French foods and wines.

Poet of the Appetites

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865476217
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Book Synopsis Poet of the Appetites by : Joan Reardon

Download or read book Poet of the Appetites written by Joan Reardon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christened by John Updike as the "poet of the appetites," M.F.K. Fisher changed the way Americans understood the art of living. But she was also a master mythologizer. This multifaceted portrayal is no less memorable than the personae Fisher crafted for herself.

As Always, Julia

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547504837
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis As Always, Julia by : Joan Reardon

Download or read book As Always, Julia written by Joan Reardon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting correspondence, in print for the first time, chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and the turbulent process of Julia’s creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks ever written. Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome as she follows her diplomat husband in his postings to Nice, Germany, and Norway. With commentary by the noted food historian Joan Reardon, and covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

The Unprejudiced Palate

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Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812971558
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unprejudiced Palate by : Angelo M. Pellegrini

Download or read book The Unprejudiced Palate written by Angelo M. Pellegrini and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First issued in 1948, when soulless minute steaks and quick casseroles were becoming the norm, The Unprejudiced Palate inspired a seismic culinary shift in how America eats. Written by a food-loving immigrant from Tuscany, this memoir-cum-cookbook articulates the Italian American vision of the good life: a backyard garden, a well-cooked meal shared with family and friends, and a passion for ingredients and cooking that nourish the body and the soul.

A Stew or a Story

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593761651
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book A Stew or a Story written by and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form," writes Joan Reardon in her introduction to this eclectic, lively collection. Magazine writing launched and helped to sustain Fisher's long, illustrious career and in these fifty–seven pieces we experience again the inimitable voice of the woman widely known to have elevated food writing to a literary art. A Stew or a Story covers five decades of Fisher's writing for such notable and diverse publications as Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Ladies Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, The New Yorker, 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.

Between Meals

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Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466896426
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Meals by : A. J. Liebling

Download or read book Between Meals written by A. J. Liebling and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris. “There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge.” In his nostalgic review of his Rabelaisian initiation into life’s finer pleasures, Liebling celebrates the richness and variety of French food, fondly recalling great meals and memorable wines. He writes with awe and a touch of envy of his friend and mentor Yves Mirande, “one of the last great gastronomes of France,” who would dispatch a lunch of “raw Bayonne ham and fresh figs, a hot sausage in crust, spindles of filleted pike in a rich rose sauce Nantua, a leg of lamb larded with anchovies, artichokes on a pedestal of foie gras, and four or five kinds of cheese, with a good bottle of Bordeaux and one of Champagne”—all before beginning to contemplate dinner. In A.J. Liebling, a great writer and a great eater became one, for he offers readers a rare and bountiful feast in this delectable book. With an introduction by James Salter, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of A Sport and a Pastime

Last House

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Last House by : Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher

Download or read book Last House written by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in a trilogy of selections from the journals, short stories, and correspondence of one of America's best-loved writers. With style, humor, and spare, elegant prose, Fisher retraces her adventures in France as a young housewife, recalls her return to California, and ruminates on such favorite themes as food, literature, and relationships.

The Art of Eating

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0764542613
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Eating by : M. F. K. Fisher

Download or read book The Art of Eating written by M. F. K. Fisher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-03-05 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me", "Serve it Forth", "How to Cook a Wolf", and "An Alphabet for Gourmets". The volume contains an array of thoughts, memories and recipes.

M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters

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Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters by : Joan Reardon

Download or read book M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters written by Joan Reardon and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters celebrates the accomplishments and friendships of three women who changed the way Americans think about food and cooking, dining and pleasure." "In a series of three overlapping biographical portraits, Reardon reveals the private lives behind their public personas. Tracing major developments in their careers and quoting extensively from letters they exchanged, she recounts the times and places at which their lives intersected and shares testimonies of the friendship and respect that grew among them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Weight of Obesity

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Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286820
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis The Weight of Obesity by : Emily Yates-Doerr

Download or read book The Weight of Obesity written by Emily Yates-Doerr and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss—but much goes awry as ideas move from policy boardrooms and clinics into everyday life. Based on years of intensive fieldwork, The Weight of Obesity offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets—and their bodies—radically transformed. Anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in postcolonial Latin America. Through vivid descriptions of how people reject global standards and embrace fatness as desirable, this book interferes with contemporary biomedicine, adding depth to how we theorize structural violence. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.

A History of Cookbooks

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391497
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Cookbooks by : Henry Notaker

Download or read book A History of Cookbooks written by Henry Notaker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue: a rendez-vous -- The cook -- Writer and author -- Origin and early development of modern cookbooks -- Printed cookbooks: diffusion, translation, and plagiarism -- Organizing the cookbook -- Naming the recipes -- Pedagogical and didactic aspects -- Paratexts in cookbooks -- The recipe form -- The cookbook genre -- Cookbooks for rich and poor -- Health and medicine in cookbooks -- Recipes for fat and lean days -- Vegetarian cookbooks -- Jewish cookbooks -- Cookbooks and aspects of nationalism -- Decoration, illusion, and entertainment -- Taste and pleasure -- Gender in cookbooks and household books -- Epilogue: cookbooks and the future.

Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271548
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds by : Oretta Zanini De Vita

Download or read book Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds written by Oretta Zanini De Vita and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place to the essential flavors of its ingredients. In this only English-language book to encompass the entire region, the award-winning author of Encyclopedia of Pasta, Oretta Zanini De Vita, offers a substantial and complex social history of Rome and Lazio through the story of its food. Including more than 250 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, the author leads readers on an exhilarating journey from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.

Food Politics

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275969
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Food Politics by : Marion Nestle

Download or read book Food Politics written by Marion Nestle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this title, the author reveals how the competition really works and how it affects our health. It illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights.

The Cookbook Library

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244001
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cookbook Library by : Anne Willan

Download or read book The Cookbook Library written by Anne Willan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and ragoûts of Louis XIV’s court to elegant eighteenth-century chilled desserts, The Cookbook Library draws from renowned cookbook author Anne Willan’s and her husband Mark Cherniavsky’s antiquarian cookbook library to guide readers through four centuries of European and early American cuisine. As the authors taste their way through the centuries, describing how each cookbook reflects its time, Willan illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. A deeply personal labor of love, The Cookbook Library traces the history of the recipe and includes some of their favorites.

A Feast of Weeds

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270347
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis A Feast of Weeds by : Luigi Ballerini

Download or read book A Feast of Weeds written by Luigi Ballerini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzling display of humanistic erudition, wit, and practical culinary advice. Ballerini's living herbarium reinitiates modern readers living in the concrete manswarm into the joys of foraging, gathering, and savoring herbs, flowers, and berries. Its wide-ranging historical context, a veritable documentary of poets and chroniclers of past and present, is a learned celebration of nature's bounty. Practical and flavorful recipes for each plant transport the 'weeds' from the field to the palate and enhance a narrative enriched by splendid complementary footnotes."—Albert Sonnenfeld, Series Director, Arts of the Table "Weeds indeed. A guide as witty as he is erudite, Luigi Ballerini has given us a remarkable compendium of the wild greens, along with their flowers and fruits, that people have foraged and eaten for millennia. Once the food of the poor, such ingredients are now in high demand. Gathering greens both familiar—such as mint or borage—and obscure—milk thistle and wallrocket—Ballerini draws upon a diverse cast of authors to attest or dispute their real or alleged medicinal powers. Just as important, he never neglects to suggest how they taste or to present fine recipes so that we can savor them for ourselves."—Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker "The scholar and poet Luigi Ballerini has given us a mouthwatering treasure of inventive Italian recipes for foraged wild plants adapted for the American locavore kitchen (including ten for borage alone, as well as nettle and purslane frittatas, and prickly pear risotto). This elegantly illustrated volume is peppered with humor and tastefully seasoned with a wealth of cultural, historical, and scientific sources and information. A Feast of Weeds is food for both the palate and the mind."—Jean-Claude Carron, University of California, Los Angeles

Cuisine and Empire

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286316
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Cuisine and Empire by : Rachel Laudan

Download or read book Cuisine and Empire written by Rachel Laudan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culinary philosophy”—beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods—prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan’s innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.