To begin again: stories and memoirs, 1908-1929Decades of readers hungry for an intelligent thought gracefully expressed have already gathered the writings of M.F.K. Fisher close to heart. This new collection of classic prose, chronicling life's hungers and renewals, features pieces written as long ago as 40 years and as recently as the 1980s--many never before published. A PBS tribute to the life and works of Fisher is scheduled for later this year. |
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TO BEGIN AGAIN: Stories and Memoirs
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Contents
To Begin | 3 |
Native Truths 19081952 | 7 |
On Coveting 1912 | 15 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power Carole Counihan No preview available - 1999 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | To begin again: stories and memoirs, 1908-1929 |
| Author | Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 7, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0679415769, 9780679415763 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Subjects | › Authors, American Authors, American/ 20th century/ Biography Biography & Autobiography / Culinary Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers Biography & Autobiography / Historical Food writers Food writers/ United States/ Biography Gastronomy Women authors, American Women food writers |
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