M. F. K. Fisher

M. F. K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher (eigentlich Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, * 3. Juli 1908 in Albion, Michigan; † 22. Juni 1991 in Glen Ellen, Kalifornien), war eine US-amerikanische Essayistin, die sich vor allem mit Themen rund um die Koch- und Tafelkunst auseinandersetzte.

Sie stand in der Tradition von Brillat-Savarin, und ihre 1949 erschienene Übersetzung seines Hauptwerks Die Physiologie des Geschmacks machte seine Arbeit in den USA und Kanada bekannt.

M.F.K. Fisher lebte Anfang der 30er Jahre für drei Jahre in Frankreich, wo sie von der Lebens- und Esskultur entscheidend geprägt wurde. Nach ihrer Rückkehr in die USA begann sie Essays über die Kochkunst zu veröffentlichen. Ihr erstes Buch Serve it Forth war so anders als das anderer weiblicher Autoren vor ihr, dass viele Kritiker annahmen, es sei von einem Mann geschrieben.

Ihr zu Ehren wird alle zwei Jahre von Les Dames d'Escoffier International der M.F.K. Fisher Award verliehen, mit denen Frauen ausgezeichnet werden, die maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Weiterentwicklung der Kochkunst und Tafelkultur haben.

Veröffentlichungen

  • Serve It Forth (1937)
  • Aix-en-Provence
  • Consider the Oyster (1941)
  • How to Cook a Wolf (1942)
  • The Gastronomical Me (1943)
  • Here Let Us Feast, A Book of Banquets (1946)
  • Not Now but Now (1947)
  • An Alphabet for Gourmets (1949)
  • The Physiology of Taste [translator] (1949)
  • The Art of Eating (1954)
  • A Cordial Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast (1961)
  • The Story of Wine in California (1962)
  • Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (1964)
  • Recipes: The Cooking of Provincial France (1968) [reprinted in 1969 as The Cooking of Provincial France]
  • With Bold Knife and Fork (1969)
  • Among Friends (1971)
  • A Considerable Town (1978)
  • Not a Station but a Place (1979)
  • As They Were (1982)
  • Sister Age (1983)
  • Spirits of the Valley (1985)
  • Fine Preserving: M.F.K. Fisher's Annotated Edition of Catherine Plagemann's Cookbook (1986)
  • Dubious Honors (1988)
  • The Boss Dog: A Story of Provence (1990)
  • Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (1991)
  • To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 (1992)
  • Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 (1993)
  • Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 (1995)
  • Aphorisms of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin from His Work, The Physiology of Taste (1998)
  • From the Journals of M.F.K. Fisher (1999)
  • Two Kitchens in Provence (1999)
  • Home Cooking: An Excerpt from a Letter to Eleanor Friede, December, 1970 (2000)

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