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M.F.K. Fisher Taught Americans How to Nourish Bodies and Souls

With our seemingly intuitive sense that good food can be about more than a full stomach, the message of How to Cook a Wolf might now appear a given. Fisher emerged, however, as a writer at a time when food wasn’t nearly so central to the national imagination. The story of cookbook author and TV personality Julia Child, one recounted in the feature film Julie & Julia and a subsequent TV series and documentary, is a potent reminder that American cuisine tended to be bland in the middle of the twentieth century. Innovators such as Child, Fisher, and chef James Beard, who all came to know one another, helped shake things up.

“America was another country in the fifties,” culinary writer Ruth Reichl has pointed out in describing the nation’s eating habits. “Spaghetti came in cans. Cheese mainly meant Velveeta. Nobody had ever heard of cappuccino. Most fancy restaurants were serving something called Continental Cuisine, and the only Chinese dish anyone knew was chop suey.”

While Child and Beard taught Americans how to cook, Fisher, “on the other hand, believed ‘the first condition of learning how to eat is learning how to talk about it,’ and she wanted us to read about eating for sheer pleasure,” Reichl adds.

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M. F. K. Fisher

American food writer

M. F. K. Fisher
Born	Mary Frances Kennedy ()July 3, Albion, Michigan, U.S.
Died	June 22, () (aged&#;83) Glen Ellen, California, U.S.
Pen name	Victoria Berne (shared)
Occupation	Writer
Subject	Food, travel, memoir
Spouse	Alfred Young Fisher Dillwyn Parrish Donald Friede
Children	Anna, Kennedy

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede (July 3, – June 22, ), 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 (), How to Cook a Wolf (), The Gastronomical Me () and a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."^[1] In the New York Times editorial board went so far as to say, "Calling M.F.K. Fisher, who has just been elected to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, a food writer is a lot like calling Mozart a tunesmith. At the same time that she is celebrating, say, oysters (which lead, she says, 'a dreadful but excitin