Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher

Whether the subject of her fancy is the lowly unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that belies the complexities of the life she often muses on. She is hailed as one of Americas preeminent writers about gastronomy. But to limit her to that genre would be a disservice. She was passionate and welltraveled and her narratives fill over two dozen highly acclaimed books. In this collection of some of her finest works we learn that Fishers palette was not only well trained in gastronomical masterpieces but in lifes best pleasures as well. Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher is an instructional manual on how to live eat and love brought together by prolific researcher and culinary enthusiast Anne Zimmerman. With great care she has selected essays that sometimes forgive our lustful appetites yet simultaneously celebrate them as in "Once a Tramp Always . . . " and "Love in a Dish " which guides us down the path to marital bliss via the family dining table. It is through this carefully chosen selection which includes two essays never before collected in book form that we encounter Fishers bold passion for cuisine and an introduction to her idea of what constitutes the delicious life.