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Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.

Dubious honors / M.F.K. Fisher.

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1988.

212 pages ; 24 cm

Fisher, of whom it was once said that she writes about food the way that others write about love, is probably the most esteemed food writer in America. Here she collects 35 prefaces15 written for her own books, the rest for cookbooks and other books about food and drink by other writers, each of the latter introduced by a short new essay. Some of the prefaces are rich and meaty, like the small masterwork that introduces the memorial edition of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook ; some are very slight. -- Library Journal

Gastronomy.

Economy gastronomy (1963) -- Napa wine (1965) -- Cook's & diners' dictionary (1968) -- Pots & pans, etc. (1971) -- My Paris (1972) -- Soup and Bread (1978) -- Not a station, but a place (1979) -- Japanese cooking (1980) -- Vin et Fromage (1981) -- The tea lover's treasury (1982) -- Cooking great meals every day (1982) -- Square meals (1984) -- The book of California wine (1984) -- The unprejudiced palate (1984) -- New American chefs and their recipes (1984) -- Wine with food (1984) -- The Alice B. Toklas cook book (1984) -- California Fresh (1985) -- The sophisticated traveler (1985) -- A commonplace book of cookery -- Serve it forth (1937) -- How to cook a wolf (1942) -- The gastronomical me -- Here let us feast (1946) -- Not now but now (1947) -- The physiology of taste (1949) -- An alphabet for gourmets (1949) -- A cordiall water (1961) -- Map of another town (1964) -- With bold knife and fork -- Among friends (1971) -- A considerable town (1978) -- As they were (1982) -- Sister age (1983).

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