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The Gastronomical Me Paperback – Oct. 10 1989

by M. F. K. Fisher (Author)

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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.

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North Point Press
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Oct. 10 1989
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14.1 x 1.78 x 20.19 cm
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0865473927
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978-0865473928
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M. F. K. Fisher sees life stomach first. The New York Times said "She spit Puritan restraint out like a dull wine and made a life of savoring the slow, sensual pleasures of the table." And between meals, she savored the pleasures of men and travel, too. She recalls California in 1912, life in France in the 1930s, and traveling solo to Mexico in 1941. Her first oyster is a beautiful story, about adolescence and the glory of the briny mollusk, and her humor is as forthright as her taste at table.

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“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” ―W.H. Auden

“Poet of the appetites.” ―John Updike

“Because The Gastronomical Me is autobiographical, following Mrs. Fisher from childhood to widowhood in different countries, we are able to see its food not only as a matter of personal taste, but as a perpetual emotional and social force within a life. Here are meals as seductions, educations, diplomacies, communions. Unique among the classics of gastronomic writing, with its glamorous but not glamorized settings, its wartime drama and its powerful love story, The Gastronomical Me is a book about adult loss, survival, and love.” ―Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books

“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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Point Press (Oct. 10 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0865473927
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0865473928
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 226 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.1 x 1.78 x 20.19 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #247,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #383 in Gastronomy Essays (Books)
- #451 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs
- #872 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks

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A great book for readers of all backgrounds!

Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2000

Do the former critics not read Tolstoy because he was a Count? I was born into a working class neighborhood in New York, and this is one of my favorite books. Being a gourmand is an enlightened point of view, a matter of personal taste. In my opinion this is Ms. Fisher's very best book. The writing, and the personality, are exquisite. Especially in the chapter about her Father and a childhood journey, and the discovery of her crush on a fellow boarding school student (female) and her love of oysters, at the same time! Am I the only one who feels that I've shared all of those wonderful meals with her when I put down this book? Great to pack along when you are traveling, even if you've read it before!

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jumpy1

I loved it in spite of myself

Reviewed in Canada on September 30, 2000

First I should admit I'm not a usual fan of MFK Fisher. I find her rambling and neurotic style a bit unsettling. Even in this book, one minute she's a snob and the next minute ... well I don't want to give it away. Nonethless, I loved it through and through. Much less neurotic or rambling than her other stuff. Marvelous stories. Wonderful points of view coming through. I really loved the story about that cook in her childhood who ... okay, I won't tell. If you like autobiography, this is a good one.

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Gorgeous Personal Story

Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2002

Fisher recounts her life through her intimate association with food, growing up, travelling alone to meet her formidable uncle (knowing when to order consomé,) eating blue point oysters at a sorority banquet, falling in love with her first husband, living with him in 1930s Dijon at a boarding house where the landlady made ananas au kirsch, divorcing him, nursing another sick husband, being wooed while still married, travelling on cruise liners, watching the rise of the Nazis in Europe, and finally travelling to Mexico in her widowhood. Fisher reveals food as a civilizing force, revelling in its sensual pleasure while remaining starkly aware of a world going wrong. She writes real characters; it's journalism in a short story style, using that technique of fiction. With remarkably serene prose, delicate and sensuous, Fisher shows herself to be a singular woman who understands all too well the foibles of humanity and gracefully counteracts them with an almost pious devotion to the riches and possibilities of elegant cuisine.

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Yukari M.

liked it but had mixed feelings

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2001

like many of the other reviewers, i found that ms. fisher's account of some events exquisite while others were confusing. as a food lover myself, i really enjoyed her descriptions of meals in various countries. but as an autobiography, i found that i didn't necessarily know more about ms. fisher after reading the book. the essays jumped around different years, and i felt that some of the most important events in her life lacked the background information for the reader to truly understand the significance they had on ms. fisher's life. all in all, i *did* enjoy the book, however. it made for quick reading, especially since every essay was a story onto itself. it inspired me to read more of ms. fisher's essays in hopes of finding out more about her.

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stoaty1

5 stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2023

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For both the writing and the food.

northkona

Splendid sketches of the making of a food writer

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2010

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This is a great read for food lovers and francophiles. It isnt really a travel book at all, but Fisher's highly personal and frequently witty account of the experiences that shaped her thinking and made her one of the most noted food writers of the 20th century.

Fisher was an American, and her adult life in France began in 1929 when she and her new husband moved to Dijon. One quickly appreciates how difficult her experiences as a newcomer must have been -- no stove, no refrigerator, no heating in winter. Some reviewers didn't like the way the book left gaps in her personal life story. That's true, but it isnt a standard biography, it's a literary sketch book.

If you're looking for a travel book, this isn't one. Stylistically, because this book was written 65 or 70 years ago, there is no comparison between it and much later accounts of spending a year in Provence, touring the wine country, or houseboating on the Seine.

Finally, one reviewer here thought the last part of the book about her time in Mexico seemed out of place. I agree, so if you get the book and read everything but the bit about the Mexican soujourn, you will have gotten to the heart of what I think she wanted us to know, anyway.

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Kathryn look

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2022

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So well written and a great gift for a foodie.

Andrew G. Matthews

Stunning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2017

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This is a wonderful book, so beautifully written that many of the sentences made me gasp with pleasure. I'm not a foodie, or a particular fan of autobiography, but to be in company with MFK Fisher is like being (seriously) at the same table as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Lillian Hellman. Don't be put off by the title, this is a joy.

3 people found this helpful

Adriana P.

Four stars is too generous but three and half is too stingy…

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021

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The very first story and the very last will stay with me forever but everything in between is a bit soft.

2 people found this helpful

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