Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon (DESTINATIONS) - Softcover

Fisher, M.F.K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671755145 ISBN 13: 9780671755140

Publisher: Touchstone, 1992

Synopsis

In 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. Long Ago In France is Fisher's exquisitely evocative, deliciously candid memoir of her three-year stay in Dijon. It is a delightful journey backward - in the grandest of company - into a voluptuous, genteel world that has vanished forever.

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About the Author:

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) is the author of sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. Her books include "The Gastronomical Me "and "How to Cook a Wolf". In 1991, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

From Library Journal:

Fisher spent three years in Dijon in the halcyon days between the wars. This is a brief and wholly delightful memoir of that time, an account rich with wines, meals, and crisply etched portraits. Fisher has often been categorized as a food writer--as if cooking and eating were activities somehow apart from life. Here she writes just as exuberantly of her monstrously vital landlady as she does of disintegrating snipe roasted on "toast softened with the paste of their rotted innards." Jan Morris reminds us in her introduction that W.H. Auden called Fisher's prose the best in America, a verdict this volume comes close to confirming. Highly recommended.
- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671755145
• ISBN 13: 9780671755140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176