Description

In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fishers tastecontrarian and uniqueand her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/18/2002
Series: Art of Eating
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780865473690
Language: English