PENGUIN BOOKS — GREAT FOOD

Love in a Dish and Other Pieces

MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER (1908–1992) is considered one of the greatest American food writers of the twentieth century. In 1929, the newly married Fisher travelled with her husband to Dijon, in France, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time and learned how to live and eat well and economically. She returned in 1932 to an American appetite weakened by the Great Depression and began to write essays of her own. The author of many books, including the wartime classic How to Cook a Wolf, she aimed always to inspire cooks and combined recipes with reflection, anecdote and passionate storytelling. Considered the ‘poet of the appetites’ by John Updike, and hailed by W. H. Auden as the greatest American prose writer, her culinary essays have become American classics.