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THERE are two kinds of books about eating: those that try to imitate Brillat-Savarin's, and those that try not to. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars I cook fer a livin'..., Jan 10 2004

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mojostarz (Kennedyville, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

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This was a gift from an ex-occasional lover...This is what I'll remember her by. If you love to cook, if you love to eat...if you just love to read while you eat...or make love and cook...what the heck, do 'em all at once...buy this now and have no regrets. Geez I miss that woman.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thank heavens, "Art of Eating" is back in print, Oct 27 2002

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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For some inexplicable reason, the brilliant writing of M.F.K.Fisher was out of print, or hard to obtain for a while. Her prose is possibly some of the best writing from the 20th Century, so the difficulty in getting her books was rather puzzling. If you read anyone who writes about cuisine, they always refer to M.F.K. Fisher as some kind of luminary. In "The Art of Eating", there is every opportunity to examine why her writing is held in such high esteem.

This book is a compilation of her most famous works "Consider the Oyster," "Serve It Forth," "How to Cook a Wolf," "The Gastronomical Me" and "An Alphabet for Gourmets." Each is quite different. "How to Cook a Wolf" is about cooking in times of want, in this case, World War II, but the book really becomes semi-autobiographical and talks about her young days in Dijon, where she was the wife of a student at the University.

If you haven't read M.F.K. Fisher, this is probably the best book to start with--it combines memoir with culinary musings; advice on scrambled eggs with her own ideas about health and nutrition. If you then can't get enough of Fisher, I recommend, "The Measure of Her Powers" which is much more autobiographical and utterly fascinating.

I actually read Fisher more for her memoirs. Her fascination with food and cooking is to me about life and art,--the French view of food not as something merely to fill the belly, but as an art form and a craft.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best culinary book ever!, Oct 14 2002

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Georgia Petra (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

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A wonderful book! Unappreciated. Mary Francis shows us that eating is life and life is eating, or at least, the good life is good eating. One of American's best writers, the now deceased MFK Fisher deserves to be read in her finest. This book collects 3 of her previous collections of essays, many originally published in the New Yorker. If you don't like this book, you don't like good eating and good writing about it.

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