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MFK Fisher, 1908-1992:
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher wrote elegant books and essays about the history, sociology, and pleasures of food. From the joys of a tangerine section toasted on a radiator and then cooled on a snowy windowsill to the taste of her first raw oyster, Fisher, with her sensuous prose, won the respect of many literary figures, including WH Auden and John Updike, who called her "a poet of the appetites." She spent much of her life in California, where she wrote such classics as "Consider the Oyster" (1941) and "How to Cook a Wolf" (1942), which gave advice on cooking with wartime rations. Late in life, while living in Glen Ellen, California, she sat for Ginny Stanford, who captured a strong woman looking into a unknown future "illuminated by a single silver icon."
Ginny Stanford, 1991 |