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Format:

Book

Author:

Reardon, Joan, 1930-

Title:

M.F.K. Fisher among the pots and pans : celebrating her kitchens / Joan Reardon ; foreword by Amanda Hesser.

Publisher, Date:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Description:

xii, 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Summary:

"M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans, interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated with photographs and original watercolors, is a retrospective of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher's life as it unfolded in those homey settings from Fisher's childhood in Whittier, California, to her coming of age in Dijon, where she developed her taste for French foods and wines; from the idyllic kitchen at Le Paquis to the isolation of her home in Hemet, California; and finally to her last days in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys."--BOOK JACKET.

Series:

California studies in food and culture ; 22

California studies in food and culture ; 22.

Subjects:

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

Food writers -- United States -- Biography.

Cooking.

Genre:

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168).

Contents:

Whittier and Laguna Beach, 1908-1922 -- At boarding school, 1923-1928 -- From Dijon to Eagle Rock, 1929-1936 -- At Le Paquis, 1936-1939 -- At Bareacres, 1939-1949 -- California and Provence, 1949-1961 -- In St. Helena, 1961-1970 -- Last house, 1971-1980 -- The lodestar.

Web Site:

Table of contents

LCCN:

2008002163

ISBN:

9780520255555

0520255550

Other Number:

178270294

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

222947

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

641.5092 Fisher