Author. Known as "M.F.K. Fisher", she was considered one of America's best food writers. For sixty years, her sensuous, beguiling essays told of oysters and wolves, dining alone and drinking wine as metaphors for life. Fisher wrote numerous articles for The New Yorker, and Gourmet, as well as 27 books. Among them: "Serve It Forth," "How to Cook a Wolf (1941, a reference to World War II rationing and shortages)," "An Alphabet for Gourmets," "With Bold Knife and Fork,(1969)" and "The Gastronomical Me." Her best-known work, a translation of "The Physiology of Taste," was published in 1949. William Shawn, former editor of The New Yorker, said she was a writer who seemed to value style above substance, and that she was one of the great American writers. W.H. Auden once called her the best prose writer in America. Julia Child, who popularized French cooking in America, stated that more people were reading Fisher's works, as gastronomy was being taken more seriously. She was first married to Alfred Fisher in 1929, and divorced in 1938. She then married Dillwyn Parrish in 1938. Her journals were donated to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts after her death.
Author. Known as "M.F.K. Fisher", she was considered one of America's best food writers. For sixty years, her sensuous, beguiling essays told of oysters and wolves, dining alone and drinking wine as metaphors for life. Fisher wrote numerous articles for The New Yorker, and Gourmet, as well as 27 books. Among them: "Serve It Forth," "How to Cook a Wolf (1941, a reference to World War II rationing and shortages)," "An Alphabet for Gourmets," "With Bold Knife and Fork,(1969)" and "The Gastronomical Me." Her best-known work, a translation of "The Physiology of Taste," was published in 1949. William Shawn, former editor of The New Yorker, said she was a writer who seemed to value style above substance, and that she was one of the great American writers. W.H. Auden once called her the best prose writer in America. Julia Child, who popularized French cooking in America, stated that more people were reading Fisher's works, as gastronomy was being taken more seriously. She was first married to Alfred Fisher in 1929, and divorced in 1938. She then married Dillwyn Parrish in 1938. Her journals were donated to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts after her death.
Bio by: Frank Passic, Albion Historian
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