M. F. K. Fisher | |
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| Born | Mary Frances Kennedy July 3, 1908 Albion, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | June 22, 1992 (aged 83) Glen Ellen, California, U.S. |
| Pen name | Victoria Berne (shared) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Subject | Food, travel, memoir |
| Spouse | Alfred Young Fisher Dillwyn Parrish Donald Friede |
| Children | Anna, Kennedy |
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992), writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."[1] In 1991 the New York Times editorial board went so far as to say, "Calling M.F.K. Fisher, who has just been elected to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, a food writer is a lot like calling Mozart a tunesmith."[2]
- ^ Lazar, David Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher at 22 (University of Mississippi Press 1992) ISBN 0-87805-596-7
- ^ "The Gastronomical She". Opinion: The Topics of the Times. The New York Times. 1991-02-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-24.