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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New York :
North Point Press,
2002, c1937
San Francisco : 1989, c1937 San Francisco : 1989, ©1937 San Francisco : 1989 |
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Table of Contents:
- To Begin 3
- When a Man Is Small 6
- Greek Honey and the Hon-Zo: 300 B.C.-100 A.D. Egypt, the Orient, and Greece 12
- The Curious Nose 19
- Let the Sky Rain Potatoes 25
- Borderland 30
- Garum: 100 A.D.-400 A.D. Rome 33
- Fifty Million Snails 40
- Meals for Me 47
- Dark Ages and the Men of God: 1000 A.D.-1400 A.D. Europe 53
- I Arise Resigned 55
- In Sinistra Parte, Johannus Baptista: 1100 A.D.-1450 A.D. England 62
- Pity the Blind in Palate 68
- A Pigges Pettie Toes: Elizabethan England 72
- The Standing and the Waiting 76
- Catherine's Lonesome Cooks: 1533 A.D.-1810 A.D. France 89
- Two Birds Without a Branch 95
- The Pale Yellow Glove 99
- The Brothers 106
- Set Piece for a Fishing Party: 1810 A.D.-1900 A.D. France 108
- On Dining Alone 114
- Sing of Dinner in a Dish 119
- Shell Shock and Richard the Third: 1900 A.D.-Europe and America 127
- The Social Status of a Vegetable 133
- Cesar 140
- To End 147