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Serve It Forth

by M.F.K. Fisher · 1937

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InServe 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. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste—contrarian and unique—and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

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cookingcookingMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
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short · 160 pages
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