M. F. K. Fisher

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908-June 22, 1992) was a prolific and well-respected writer, writing more than 20 books during her lifetime and also publishing two volumes of journals and correspondence shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth was published in 1937.

Books

• Serve It Forth, 1937
• Aix-en-Provence
• Consider the Oyster, 1941
• How to Cook a Wolf, 1942 deals with cooking under wartime privation
• The Gastronomical Me, 1943
• M.F.K. Fisher translated Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste from French to English, 1949
• An Alphabet for Gourmets, 1949
• The Art of Eating
• A Cordial Water: A garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man & Beast, 1961
• The Story of Wine in California, 1962
• Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence, 1964
• The Cooking of Provincial France, 1968
• Not a Station but a Place, 1979
• With Bold Knife and Fork, 1969
• Among Friends, 1970
• A Considerable Town, 1978
• Long Ago in France, 1991