Poet of the Appetites : The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher by Joan Reardon
One of MFK Fishers most popular books was called “How to cook a wolf.” No, not a guide to dating but about how to survive wartime food shortages in 1942. She was America’s greatest food writer; “ When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it,” ( well, almost a dating guide) “Child, wife, mother, mistress, self-made career woman, trail-blazing writer–Fisher served up each role with panache. But like many master stylists, she was also a master mythologizer. Her portraits and scenarios were often unrecognizable to those on whom they were based, and her own emotions and experiences remained cloaked in ambiguity. how did a woman with such straightlaced roots become one of the world’s most delightfully irreverent bon vivantes?” If you loved the juicy biography of Elizabeth David, you’’ll love this one too
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