The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher - Classic Food Writing & Culinary Memoir | Perfect for Food Lovers, Book Clubs & Cooking Enthusiasts

Jacket. Second Edition. NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1943].

In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses.

As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent.

In the second issue jacket, with modest image of the author (she had posed in a more come-hither position for the first issue jacket, which was met with consternation by the public, and thus was replaced by this second issue). Chipping to jacket spine ends, with 2 short tears to upper front jacket panel, otherwise very good and bright. The work that made Fisher famous. 

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