The Poetics of M. F. K. Fisher.

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M. F. K. Fisher once said, "I do not consider myself a food writer" (qtd. in Lopate 545). Notwithstanding her view, she remains known for her copious body of writing on gastronomy and her English translation of Brillat-Savarin's famous 1825 treatise on eating, The Physiology of Taste, though she also wrote poetry, novels, a screenplay, essays, and stories, all on topics other than food. How do we reconcile Fisher's self-perception with her reputation? Phillip Lopate suggests that we consider food to be Fisher's defining metaphor. He writes, "Certainly food was her primary ...

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