M.F.K. Fisher
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, better known as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American culinary writer born in 1908. She’s best known for her culinary essays, which feature recipes, philosophical reflections, and reminiscences. Her books include Serve It Forth, How to Cook a Wolf, and The Gastronomical Me. Fisher died in 1992.
Love And Death Among The Molluscs
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
May 2022
excerpted from
An Alphabet For Gourmets
P is for peas . . . [and here are] a few reasons why the best peas I ever ate in my life were, in truth, the best peas I ever ate in my life.
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