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An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher
$23.00 AUD
Category: Food
From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, 'a Russian hors d'oeuvre', An Alphabet for Gourmets takes us through a selection of food essays by the incomparable M. F. K. Fisher, alighting on long-time obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions to wholly charming effect.
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher
$23.00 AUD
Category: Food
M. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most enigmatic of ocean creatures, the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared #65533; la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found the ...Show more
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji; M. F. K. Fisher (Introduction by); Ruth Reichl (Foreword by); Yoshiki Tsuji
$80.00 AUD
Category: Food
When it was first published, Japanese Cooking- A Simple Art changed the way the culinary world viewed Japanese cooking, moving it from obscure ethnic food to haute cuisine.Twenty-five years later, much has changed. Japanese food is a favorite of diners around the world. Not only is sushi as much a part ...Show more
Love in a Dish and Other Pieces : Great Food by M. F. K. Fisher
$9.95 AUD
Category: Food
M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytelling. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an epic lunch served by a ...Show more
Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Fisher's memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself,' and a vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
The Art of Eating (50th Anniversary edition) by M. F. K. Fisher; Joan Reardon
$55.00 AUD
Category: Food
RUTH REICHL "Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her." JULIA CHILD "How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome ...Show more
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats by Haruki Murakami (Contribution by); Calvin Trillin (Contribution by); M. F. K. Fisher (Contribution by); Ronald Dahl (Contribution by); New Yorker Magazine Staff; Anthony Lane (Foreword by)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Look what The New Yorker dragged in It's the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine's archives. Among the cont ...Show more
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K Fisher
$23.00 AUD
Category: Food
A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger.
The Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Susan Harper and Joe Kelly, in love and hitchhiking through Europe, never want this perfect, passionate summer to end. It is the late 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin. But these tiresome strictures are swept away when they arrive at La Prairie, the elegant haven on ...Show more
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