As They Were

Fisher, M. F. K.

ISBN 10: 0394524004 / ISBN 13: 9780394524009

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1982

About this Item

261 pages. First edition, first printing. Twenty culinary memoirs from her lifetime, some of which are published here for the first time. All of which are laced with newly written reflections and asides. Dust jacket drwawings by Judith Clancy. Signed by Fisher on the first sheet. Fine book with faint foxing to the top edge in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Seller Inventory # 963777263539

Bibliographic Details

• Title: As They Were
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394524004
• ISBN 13: 9780394524009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In this collection of essays the noted writer conjures up pleasures--and pangs--of sight, sound, and taste, in California, in France, and at sea, and evokes a world that is splendidly colored, keenly felt, and richly personal

About the Author

M. F. K. Fisher was one of the great food writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1908 in Albion, Michigan, she grew up in Whittier, California, and was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, UCLA, and the University of Dijon in France. Fisher travelled to and lived in Europe throughout her adult life. The author of numerous books, magazine articles, novels, and a translation of Brillat-Savarin’s The Physiology of Taste, she is best remembered for her gastronomical works and the autobiographical nature of her writings about people, places, and food. Fisher died in 1992.