With Bold Knife and Fork
$35.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
‘A poet of the appetites’ John Updike
In one of her most celebrated books, the doyenne of food writers offers us more than 140 of her favourite and most famous recipes. Here are dishes for every course of every meal - from ‘Teasers and Titbits’, through ‘Some Seeds of this Planet’ to ‘A Plethora of Puddings’. Whether simple or esoteric, all are served with an inimitable mixture of wit, anecdote and practicality.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099422648 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099422646 |
| Author: | M.F.K. Fisher, Prue Leith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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This book is brimful of joie-de-vivre ; it’s a delicious mix of witty anecdote and practical instruction
This book is brimful of joie-de-vivre; it’s a delicious mix of witty anecdote and practical instruction * Simple Things *
About The Author
M.F.K. Fisher
Born in Michigan in 1908, M. F. K. Fisher developed her love of cooking in France, where she lived with her first husband, Al Fisher. She began to write about food in 1935. In 1938 she moved to Switzerland with her second husband, the painter Dillwyn Parish. After his death in 1941 she returned to California and several years later married the publisher Donald Friede, with whom she had two daughters. In the early 1960s she became active in the American civil rights movement and went to Mississippi as a volunteer teacher. She died in 1992.
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