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All creative cooks have their personal favorite cookbooks. They will extol what they consider to be the definitive recipe for cake, sauce, or jam, to be found in this or that book. One such cook and noted food authority is M.F.K. Fisher and she has for years treasured the slim volume by Catherine Plagemann, first published in 1967, Fine Preserving. Fisher, a noted cookbook author in her own right, now offers her annotated comments and a few of her personally favorite recipes to this previously out of print book. Mind you, Fisher is no blind apostle. Her comments range from the mildly disapproving "This is a fairly good recipe, but I still say no to the sneaky habits of pineapple in liqueur" to her firmly held opinion that cooks using artificial jelling agents (and Mrs. Plagemann was one such person) should be drawn and quartered. What is also apparent, however, is her solid respect for a cook who understood making preserves and was able to transform preserving from the lengthy surnmertime craft of farmwomen into an enjoyable art to be practiced year-round by anyone with a bit of skill and patience. The recipes range from fruit preserves to mushroom ketchup and a pepper dish called Moroccan Chermoula that holds the promise of instant addiction. The text is nicely enhanced by the pencil drawings of Earl Thollander and the introduction offers an equipment list and advice on techniques. This gives the interested reader an enjoyable, conversational visit with two knowledgeable cooks and the treat of learning a skill that can be enjoyed again and again with the opening of every new jar. -- From Independent Publisher
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Fine Preserving M. F. K. Fisher's Annotated Edition of Catherine Plagemann's Cookbook
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Aris Books, Berkeley, CA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0671630652
ISBN 13: 9780671630652
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Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Earl Thollander (illustrator). New Edition; 2nd Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a larger than trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The off-white covers have some light generalized toning. The text pages are clean and bright. "Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede (July 3, 1908 June 22, 1992) , writing as M. F. K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, among them Consider the Oyster (1941) , How to Cook a Wolf (1942) , The Gastronomical Me (1943) and a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose." In 1991 the New York Times editorial board went so far as to say, "Calling M. F. K. Fisher, who has just been elected to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, a food writer is a lot like calling Mozart a tunesmith. At the same time that she is celebrating, say, oysters (which lead, she says, 'a dreadful but exciting life') or the scent of orange segments drying on a radiator, she is also celebrating life and loneliness, sense and sensibility." " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A52439
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ISBN 10: 0671630652
ISBN 13: 9780671630652
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Earl Thollander (illustrator). VERY GOOD front cover a little bit creased adjacent upper edge. Seller Inventory # MAIN032544I