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M. F. K. Fisher (Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher), 1908-92, American culinary writer, b. Albion, Mich. Raised in California, Fisher lived in France for three years, where she was inspired by Brillat-Savarin 's philosophy of life and translated his The Physiology of Taste (1949). Her writings are more than just recipes; they are culinary essays written in a distinctively graceful literary style that also offer philosophical reflections, reminiscences, and anecdotes. Her books include Serve It Forth (1937), How to Cook a Wolf (1942), The Gastronomical Me (1943), Time-Life's The Cooking of Provincial France (1968), and With Bold Knife and Fork (1979). Fisher's posthumously published trilogy of reminiscences are To Begin Again (1992), Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me (1993), and Last House (1995).

Bibliography: See her letters ed. by N. K. Barr, M. Moran, and P. Moran (1997); autobiographical writings ed. by D. Gioia (1997); biography by J. Reardon (2004).

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Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy)

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Fisher, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] (1908–92), a Californian by birth and long‐time residence, wrote about a far larger world of fine foods, also inhabited, beginning with Serve It Forth (1937) and continuing in The Gastronomical Me (1943); A Considerable Town (1978), about Marseilles; Long Ago in France (1991), concerning Dijon; and many other works based on fact and experience. Her final publications are To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs, 1908–1929 (1992) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933–1941 (1993).

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