In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.
M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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| Birth: | 3rd July, 1908 |
| Death: | 22nd June, 1992 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing.
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