The Art of Eating by Fisher, M.F.K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Copyright The Art of Eating: In Celebration Thoughts about M. F. K. Fisher and Her Work One More Time Appreciation Introduction SERVE IT FORTH

To Begin When a Man Is Small Greek Honey and the Hon-Zo The Curious Nose Let the Sky Rain Potatoes Borderland Garum Fifty Million Snails Meals for Me Dark Ages and the Men of God I Arise Resigned In Sinistra Parte, Johannus Baptista Pity the Blind in Palate A Pigges Pettie Toes The Standing and the Waiting Catherines Lonesome Cooks Two Birds Without a Branch The Pale Yellow Glove The Brothers Set-piece for a Fishing Party On Dining Alone Sing of Dinner in a Dish Shell-shock and Richard the Third The Social Status of a Vegetable César To End

CONSIDER THE OYSTER

Love and Death Among the Molluscs A Supper to Sleep On R is for Oyster The Well-dressed Oyster Take 300 Clean Oysters A Lusty Bit of Nourishment Pearls Are Not Good to Eat Those Were Happy Days Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup Love Was the Pearl My Country, ’Tis of Thee As Luscious as Locusts

HOW TO COOK A WOLF

How to Be Sage Without Hemlock How to Catch the Wolf How to Distribute Your Virtue How to Boil Water How to Greet the Spring How Not to Boil an Egg How to Keep Alive How to Rise Up Like New Bread How to Be Cheerful Though Starving How to Carve the Wolf How to Make a Pigeon Cry How to Pray for Peace How to Be Content with a Vegetable Love How to Make a Great Show How to Have a Sleek Pelt How to Comfort Sorrow How to Be a Wise Man How to Lure the Wolf How to Drink to the Wolf How Not to Be an Earthworm How to Practice True Economy Conclusion

THE GASTRONOMICAL ME

Foreword The Measure of My Powers (1912) A Thing Shared (1918) The Measure of My Powers (1919) The Measure of My Powers (1919-1927) The First Oyster (1924) The Measure of My Powers (1927) The Measure of My Powers (1927-1928) Sea Change (1929-1931) The Measure of My Powers (1929-1930) To Feed Such Hunger (1930) The Measure of My Powers (1930-1931) Noble and Enough (1929-1931) The Measure of My Powers (1931) The Measure of My Powers (1931-1932) Sea Change (1932) Sea Change (1935) Sea Change (1936) Define This Word (1936) The Measure of My Powers (1936-1939) Once I Dreamed (1938) I Remember Three Restaurants (1936-1939) Sea Change (1937-1939) The Lemming to the Sea (1938) The Flaw (1939) The Measure of My Powers (1931) Feminine Ending (1941)

AN ALPHABET FOR GOURMETS

Foreword A is for dining Alone B is for Bachelors C is for Cautious D is for Dining out E is for Exquisite F is for Family G is for Gluttony H is for Happy I is for Innocence J is for Juvenile dining K is for Kosher L is for Literature M is for Monastic N is for Nautical O is for Ostentation P is for Peas Q is for Quantity R is for Romantic S is for Sad T is for Turbot U is for Universal V is for Venality W is for Wanton X is for Xanthippe Y is for Yak Z is for Zakuski From A to Z

Index of Recipes About the Author Notes