How to Cook a Wolf
$39.02
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” –W. H. Auden
A practical, culinary, and philosophical guide on how to eke out joy and delight in difficult times.
There is perhaps no other book that speaks so powerfully to hunger and its pangs and to the ingenuity of those who seek to cook their way out of its snapping jaws. Originally written in the depths of World War II and then revised in the shadow of the Cold War, How to Cook …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250457806 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250457807 |
| Author: | M.F.K. Fisher, Tamar Adler |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 135mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
“Calling M.F.K. Fisher a food writer is a lot like calling Mozart a tunesmith.”
–The New York Times
“Witty, irreverent, and amazingly relevant. Fisher will make you giggle, I promise, but will also give sound advice on how to cook with limited ingredients”
–Yotam Ottolenghi
“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.”
–W. H. Auden
“Poet of the appetites.”
–John Updike
“She writes about fleeting tastes and feasts vividly, excitingly, sensuously, exquisitely. There is almost a wicked thrill in following her uninhibited track through the glories of the good life.”
–James Beard
“She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better.”
–Clifton Fadiman
“M.F.K. Fisher … brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions.”
–Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books
“M.F.K. Fisher is our greatest food writer because she puts food in the mount, the mind and the imagination all at the same time. Beyond the gastronomical bravura, she is a passionate woman; food is her metaphor.”
–Shana Alexander
M.F.K. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) is the author of sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. Her books include The Gastronomical Me and How to Cook a Wolf. In 1991, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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