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

Provence, 1970

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0770433316
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Provence, 1970 by : Luke Barr

Download or read book Provence, 1970 written by Luke Barr and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today’s tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew. In Provence, 1970, he captures this seminal season, set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scope—complete with gossip, drama, and contemporary relevance.

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
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 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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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 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.

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.

Coming to My Senses

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 1101906650
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Coming to My Senses by : Alice Waters

Download or read book Coming to My Senses written by Alice Waters and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley, California in 1971 at the age of 27, no one ever anticipated the indelible mark it would leave on the culinary landscape—Alice least of all. Fueled in equal parts by naiveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, she turned her passion project into an iconic institution that redefined American cuisine for generations of chefs and food lovers. In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity. Moving from a repressive suburban upbringing to Berkeley in 1964 at the height of the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest, she was drawn into a bohemian circle of charismatic figures whose views on design, politics, film, and food would ultimately inform the unique culture on which Chez Panisse was founded. Dotted with stories, recipes, photographs, and letters, Coming to My Senses is at once deeply personal and modestly understated, a quietly revealing look at one woman's evolution from a rebellious yet impressionable follower to a respected activist who effects social and political change on a global level through the common bond of food.

Provence, 1970

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0307718352
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Provence, 1970 by : Luke Barr

Download or read book Provence, 1970 written by Luke Barr and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today’s tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew. In Provence, 1970, he captures this seminal season, set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scope—complete with gossip, drama, and contemporary relevance.

Serve It Forth

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865473690
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Book Synopsis Serve It Forth by : M. F. K. Fisher

Download or read book Serve It Forth written by M. F. K. Fisher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of entertaining anecdotes includes the abuses of the potato and how it can be dignified, social status relative to one's appreciation of vegetables, and the growth of the art of eating in ancient Greece and Rome.

Oysters

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Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592283514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis Oysters by : Joan Reardon

Download or read book Oysters written by Joan Reardon and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 185 delectable recipes, and every elusive fact and helpful hint about oysters.

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.

The Gourmands' Way

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711747
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis The Gourmands' Way by : Justin Spring

Download or read book The Gourmands' Way written by Justin Spring and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses—a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis—Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. The Gourmands’ Way explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chronicled the food and wine of “the glorious thirty,” paying particular attention to their individual struggles as writers, to their life circumstances, and, ultimately, to their particular genius at sharing awareness of French food with mainstream American readers. In doing so, this group biography also tells the story of an era when America adored all things French. The group is comprised of the war correspondent A. J. Liebling; Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s life partner, who reinvented herself at seventy as a cookbook author; M.F.K. Fisher, a sensualist and fabulist storyteller; Julia Child, a television celebrity and cookbook author; Alexis Lichine, an ambitious wine merchant; and Richard Olney, a reclusive artist who reluctantly evolved into a brilliant writer on French food and wine. Together, these writer-adventurers initiated an American cultural dialogue on food that has continued to this day. Justin Spring’s The Gourmands’ Way is the first book ever to look at them as a group and to specifically chronicle their Paris experiences.

At Home on the Range

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832291
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis At Home on the Range by : Margaret Yardley Potter

Download or read book At Home on the Range written by Margaret Yardley Potter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardbacks was a book called At Home on the Range, written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. As Gilbert writes in her Foreword: 'I jumped up and dashed through the house to find my husband, so I could read parts of it to him: Listen to this! The humor! The insight! The sophistication! Then I followed him around the kitchen while he was making our dinner (lamb shanks), and I continued reading aloud as we ate... By the end of the night there were three of us sitting at that table. Gima had come to join us, and she was wonderful, and I was in love.' The cookbook was far ahead of its time. In it, Potter espouses the importance of farmer's markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish and German), derides preservatives and culinary shortcuts and generally celebrates a devotion to epicurean adventures. Potter takes car trips out to Pennsylvania Dutch country to eat pickled pork products, and to the eastern shore of Maryland, where she learns to catch and prepare eels so delicious, she says, they must be 'devoured in a silence almost devout'. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation than currently existed, it's not hard to see where Elizabeth Gilbert inherited both her love of food and her warm, infectious prose. At Home on the Range is a fascinating, humorous and useful cookbook from the past that is essential for the present day.

An Onion in My Pocket

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525656022
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book An Onion in My Pocket written by Deborah Madison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison—“The Queen of Greens” (The Washington Post)—has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name, Madison spent almost twenty years at the Zen Center in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this warm, candid, and refreshingly funny memoir, she tells the story of her life in food—and with it, the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Northern California’s Big Ag heartland to sitting sesshin for hours on end at the Tassajara monastery; from her work in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse to the birth of food TV to the age of farmers’ markets everywhere, An Onion in My Pocket is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking and a manifesto for how to eat (and live) well today.

The Gastronomical Me

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865473927
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Gastronomical Me written by M. F. K. Fisher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-10-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fisher identifies a variety of human cravings and the means to find nourishment in what is the most intimate of the five volumes in North Point's jacketed paperback series, now complete.

An Everlasting Meal

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439181896
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book An Everlasting Meal written by Tamar Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New York magazine). In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality in cooking. In essays on forgotten skills such as boiling, suggestions for what to do when cooking seems like a chore, and strategies for preparing, storing, and transforming ingredients for a week’s worth of satisfying, delicious meals, Tamar reminds us of the practical pleasures of eating. She explains what cooks in the world’s great kitchens know: that the best meals rely on the ends of the meals that came before them. With that in mind, she shows how we often throw away the bones, skins, and peels we need to make our food both more affordable and better. She also reminds readers that almost all kitchen mistakes can be remedied. Summoning respectable meals from the humblest ingredients, Tamar breathes life into the belief that we can start cooking from wherever we are, with whatever we have. An empowering, indispensable work, An Everlasting Meal is an elegant testimony to the value of cooking.