The Gastronomical Me

My first book by MFK Fisher. Interesting to read, as a window on a person of privilige in her time. Her prose and language choices often made me think of Hemingway . . .

M.F.K. Fisher tells the story of her life through the foods she experienced. Fisher begins with her forays into college life and her first marriage, and then tells of her gradual development as a food writer that was highly influenced by her move to France.

Fisher almost skips over key details in her life including her divorce and the decline and eventual suicide of her second husband, so I had to do a bit of research to fill in the gaps.

No matter what Fisher is writing about—whether it's her life or stories about people she meets or places she lives or the food she eats—her writing is mesmerizing.