Serve it forth /
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. Whether recalling a hunt for snails or truffles with one of the last adepts in those arts, or recounting how Catherine d�...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
North Point Press,
2002, c1937
San Francisco : 1989, c1937 San Francisco : 1989, ©1937 San Francisco : 1989 |
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| Summary: | 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. Whether recalling a hunt for snails or truffles with one of the last adepts in those arts, or recounting how Catherine d'Medici, pining 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 |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Harper, 1937 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 146 p. ; 20 cm 146 p. ; 21 cm 146 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0865473692 (alk. paper) : 0865473692 9780865473690 |