M. F. K. Fisher

M. F. K. Fisher, plene Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (nata 1908; anno 1992 mortua) fuit scriptrix Americana in rebus cibariis praestans.

De vita

Maria Francisca Kennedy Albion in urbe Michiganiae nata est ubi pater patruusque diarium dirigebant. Familia autem anno 1911 Californiam petivit ubi anno 1912 in urbe Whittier habitationem statuit. Collegium Occidentale Angelopoli in urbe unum annum frequentavit, sed Alberto Fisher contubernali anno 1929 nupsit statimque cum eo ad Franciam itinere maritimo profecta est. Divione morabant ubi illa scholam Bellarum Artium, hic universitatem Divionensem frequentabat, ubi mox etiam studebat Laurentius Clark Powell.

Maria Albertusque, pecunia carente, in Californiam prope parentibus rediti ad Laguna Beach habitare coeperunt: eo mox Laurentius Powell amicus, bibliothecarius futurus, eo paulo tardius mariti Dillwyn pictor et Gigi Parrish actrix convenerunt. Maria mox iter breve Francicum cum Dillwyn persecuta, hic Mariam Albertumque anno 1936 Vibiscum Helvetiae secum convenire invitavit: ibi duos fere annos degerunt atque, divortiis factis, Dillwyn Mariam in matrimonium duxit. Haec iam anno 1937 librum primum, titulo Serve It Forth, alterumque, titulo Touch and Go, quem cum Dillwyn sub pseudonymo Victoria Berne composuerat, anno 1939 divulgaverat. Ille autem eodem anno subito aegrotans, doloribus semper crescentibus, anno 1941 sibi mortem intulit. Maria ad eius memoriam tertium librum suum eodem anno editum, titulo Consider the Oyster, dicavit.

Annis insequentibus ad Hemet in California habitans Maria libros plures scripsit eodemque tempore apud Paramount Pictures mimographa cinematographica pro Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothea Lamour operam dedit.^[1] Donaldo Friede editori scriptorique subito anno 1944 nupsit, anno 1950 se separavit. Breviter apud patrem, quo mortuo Aquis Sextiis in urbe Franciae ab 1953, deinde Sanctae Helenae in valle Napensi ab anno 1955 habitabat. Hac in urbe cum Iacobo Beard annis 1960 bibliothecam vinariam vallis Napensis condidit.^[2] Interdum in Franciam et praesertim Provinciam profectus est, ubi ante annum 1970 Iuliam Child, Iacobum Beard, Michaelem Field editorem cognovit.^[3] Ad Glen Ellen Californiae eo anno mutavit ubi domum novam sibi construere iussit: ibi die 22 Iunii 1992 mortem obiit.

De operibus

Libros fere viginti septem edidit, inter quos The Physiology of Taste ('Physiologia gustus'), quem ex Ioannis Anthelmi Brillat-Savarin Physiologie du goût Anglice convertit. Duo volumina eius ephemeridum brevi tempore ante mortem prolata sunt. Primus liber eius, Serve it Forth, anno 1937 prolatus est. Eius libri sunt commentarii mixti, qui de victu, periegesi, memoriis tractant. M. F. K. Fisher credidit bonum cibum unam tantum ex "artibus vivendi" esse, quod in scriptis suis investigare solebat. W. H. Auden anno 1963 "Neminem novi," scripsit, "in Civitatibus Foederatis hodie viventem, qui meliorem orationem solutam scribat."^[4]

Libri

Serve It Forth (Harper 1937), ISBN 0865473692
(cum Dillwyn Parrish scriptus, sub pseudonymo Victoria Berne divulgatus) : Touch and Go (Harper 1939)^[5]
Consider the Oyster (Duell, Sloan and Pierce 1941), ISBN 0865473358
How to Cook a Wolf (Duell, Sloan and Pierce 1942), ISBN 0865473366
The Gastronomical Me (Duell, Sloan and Pierce 1943), ISBN 0865473927
Here Let Us Feast, A Book of Banquets (Viking 1946), ISBN 0865472068
Not Now but Now (Viking 1947), ISBN 0865470723
An Alphabet for Gourmets (Viking 1949), ISBN 0865473919
(interpres): Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: The Physiology of Taste (Limited Editions Club 1949), ISBN 9781582431031
The Art of Eating (collectio operum Serve It Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, An Alphabet for Gourmets, praefatione Clifton Fadiman (Novi Eboraci: Macmillan, 1954)
- nova editio Londiniensis, praefatione W. H. Auden (Faber & Faber, 1963) ISBN 0394713990
A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast (Little Brown 1961), ISBN 0865470367
The Story of Wine in California (University of California Press 1962). OCLC 560806180.
Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (Little Brown 1964). OCLC 1597658.
Recipes: The Cooking of Provincial France (Time-Life Books 1968); retractatus anno 1969 titulo The Cooking of Provincial France
With Bold Knife and Fork (Putnam 1969), ISBN 0399503978
Among Friends (Knopf 1971), ISBN 0865471169
A Considerable Town (Knopf 1978), ISBN 0394427114
Not a Station but a Place (Synergistic Press 1979), ISBN 0912184027
As They Were (Knopf 1982), ISBN 0394713486
Sister Age (Vintage 1983), ISBN 0394723856
Spirits of the Valley (Targ Editions 1985)
Fine Preserving: M.F.K. Fisher's Annotated Edition of Catherine Plagemann's Cookbook (Aris Books 1986), ISBN 0671630652
Dubious Honors (North Point Press 1988), ISBN 0865473188
The Boss Dog: A Story of Provence (Yolla Bolly Press 1990), ISBN 0865474656
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (Prentice Hall 1991), ISBN 0139295488
To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 (Pantheon 1992), ISBN 0679415769
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 (Pantheon 1993), ISBN 0679758259
Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 (Pantheon 1995), ISBN 0679774114
Aphorisms of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin from His Work, The Physiology of Taste (1998)
A Life in Letters (Counterpoint 1998), ISBN 1887178465
From the Journals of M. F. K. Fisher (Pantheon 1999), ISBN 0375708073
Two Kitchens in Provence (Yolla Bolly Press 1999)
Home Cooking: An Excerpt from a Letter to Eleanor Friede, December, 1970 (Weatherford Press 2000)

Notae

↑ Zimmerman (2011) p. 216
↑ "Napa Valley Wine Library Association"
↑ Barr (2013); David Kamp, The United States of Arugula (Broadway Books 2006) pp. 106-107
↑ I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose: W. H. Auden, "Introduction" in M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating (Londinii: Faber & Faber, 1963); Lazar (1992)
↑ Scheda apud Bibliothecam Congressus

Bibliographia

Florilegia operum

Zimmerman, Anne, ed. 2012. M. F. K. Fisher: Musings on Wine and Other Libations. Sterling Epicure. ISBN 9781402778131.

Biographica et critica

Barr, Luke. 2013. Provence, 1970: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste. Novi Eboraci: Clarkson Potter, 2013
Barr, Norah Kennedy. 1993. Praefatio in M. F. K. Fisher, "Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me": Journals and Stories, 1933–1941. Novi Eboraci: Pantheon Books.
Ferrarry, Jeannette. 1998. M. F. K. Fisher and Me: A Memoir of Food and Friendship. ISBN 0312194420.
Holt, Geraldene. 2001. "Memories of M. F. K. Fisher," In: Harlan Walker, ed., Food and the memory: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2000 (Blackawton: Prospect Books, 2001) pp. 107-114

Derwin, Susan. 2003. "The Poetics of M. F. K. Fisher." Style. (autumno 2003).
Green, Michelle. 2003. "M. F. K. Fisher’s Sonoma: A House Built to Feed Body and Soul." New York Times, 31 Augusti.
Jackson, Mildred. 2011. "M. F. K. Fisher" in Victor W. Geraci, Elizabeth S. Demers, edd., Icons of American cooking (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2011) pp. 117-130 exemplar mutuabile
Lazar, David. 1992. Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher. University of Mississippi Press.
McLean, Alice. 2007. "Food, Sex, Language: The Lost Lovers and Later Words of M. F. K. Fisher and Elizabeth David." CEA Critic vol. 69 (2006/2007) pp. 14-24 JSTOR
Reardon, Joan. 2004. Poet of the Appetites. Novi Eboraci: North Point Press. ISBN 0865475628.
Reardon, Joan. 2004 [b]. "M. F. K. Fisher in France: The First Insouciant Spell (1929–1932)". Gastronomica Vol. 4 no. 4 (2004) pp. 46-59 JSTOR
Zealand, Donald. 2010. M. F. K. Fisher: An Annotated Bibliography. ISBN 1456307932.
Zimmerman, Anne. 2011. An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher. Counterpoint. ISBN 1582435464.

Nexus externi

Albert, Janice. Biographia M. F. K. Fisher.
Res M.F.K. Fisher: documenta in bibliotheca Schlesinger universitatis Harvardianae

[1] Zimmerman (2011) p. 216

[2] "Napa Valley Wine Library Association"

[3] Barr (2013); David Kamp, The United States of Arugula (Broadway Books 2006) pp. 106-107

[4] I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose: W. H. Auden, "Introduction" in M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating (Londinii: Faber & Faber, 1963); Lazar (1992)

[5] Scheda apud Bibliothecam Congressus

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