M. F. K. Fisher links cooking with love, saying meals are a shared art of affection. She observes that people feel happiest at a table when they are young, in love, or alone. She also notes how living far from shore can make humans act in strange, powerful ways.
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Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede, writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, among them Consider the Oyster (1941), How to Cook a Wolf (1942), The Gastronomical Me (1943) and a translation
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