Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets - Softcover

Fisher, M. F. K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865472068 ISBN 13: 9780865472068

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1986

Synopsis

M.F.K. Fisher is our host for the potluck of the ages, and there could be no better. The celebrated author of such books as The Art of Eating, Cooking of Provincial France, and With Bold Knife and Fork knows how to prepare a feast of reading as no other. She has extended her invitations with the utmost care (and she has refined the list in this revised edition of her 1946 classic): Charles Lamb roasts us a pig; Tobias Smollett boils a goose and serves it up in a sauce of pepper, lovage, coriander, mint, rue, anchovies, and oil; Lewis Carroll can be depended on for some unusual tea. And of course there will be those with a flair for the dramatic, such as Petronius Arbiter, with his dormice seasoned with honey and poppy-seed, his signs-of-the-Zodiac sampler, and his pastry thrushes stuffed with raisins and walnuts. These are but a few of her illustrious guests. Mrs. Fisher has arranged everything perfectly, and the result is a succession of unforgettable courses that will entice the most reluctant epicure.

About this title

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.

Review:

"I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose." -- W.H. Auden

"M.F.K. Fisher ... brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions." -- Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books

"M.F.K. Fisher is our greatest food writer because she puts food in the mount, the mind and the imagination all at the same time. Beyond the gastronomical bravura, she is a passionate woman; food is her metaphor." -- Shana Alexander

"Poet of the appetites." -- John Updike

"She writes about fleeting tastes and feasts vividly, excitingly, sensuously, exquisitely. There is almost a wicked thrill in following her uninhibited track through the glories of the good life." -- James Beard

"She writes about food as others do about love, but rather better." -- Clifton Fadiman

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0865472068
• ISBN 13: 9780865472068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 323