Here Let Us Feast

Copyright © 1946, 1986 by M.F.K. Fisher

Originally published in 1946 by The Viking Press

North Point Press 1986 edition revised by the author

Introduction copyright © 2018 by Betty Fussell

First Counterpoint paperback edition: 2018

Pages 371–73 constitute an extension of the copyright page.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908–1992, author.

Title: Here let us feast : a book of banquets / M.F.K. Fisher ; with a new introduction by Betty Fussell.

Description: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2018] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018008260 | ISBN 9781640090835 | eISBN 9781640090842

Subjects: LCSH: Literature—Collections. | Dinners and dining in literature. | Gastronomy—History.

Classification: LCC PN6071.G3 F5 2018 | DDC 808.8/03564—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018008260

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