Serve It Forth (Art of Eating)

By M.F.K. Fisher

Book Overview

In Serve It Forth , her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865473692
• ISBN13: 9780865473690
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the Great Writers of the 20th Century

This first book, a collection of essays by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, offers many examples of her brilliance. Especially wonderful are "The Standing and the Waiting" and "Cesar."