The Gastronomical Me -- M. F. K. Fisher, Paperback

In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent.

Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 10/10/1989
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780865473928

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1909

About the Author

M. F. K. Fisher is the author of sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. In 1991, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She died in 1992.