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    <body><![CDATA[A treat for anyone who sees food more than something just to satiate hunger and who realizes that pivotal life experiences often occur around a shared meal, formal or not.  I'll let Ms. Fisher speak for herself when she responds to the question of why she writes about food and hunger rather than war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43471374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how I stumbled upon MFK Fisher, but now that I have, I don't know how I missed her.  She is a premier food writer, and a must-read for anyone who loves foodie-type books.  This one is about her early food years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	To create a truly excellent dish quality ingredients must be used, certainly, but more important are the skilled hand, the discerning palate, and the acquired wisdom of a good cook.  M.F.K. Fisher was just such a cook, not only in her various kitchens, but as she stirred and seasoned the events in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16858110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, in theory, a book about food.  But a lot of it's not actually about food.  There's a lot of talk about A) alcohol, B) Random events in the author's life, and C) traveling on boats.  But for all that, I liked most of it fairly well.  MFK Fisher wrote about food in the 30's and 40's (at least...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16250290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, this book took me a couple weeks to read.  It's a bit dense, but in a good way.  Like a serious steak,  you have to decide to conquer it &amp; go at it a bit at a time.  In the early chapters MLK uses food as an induction to French life and married life.  Several chapters (some of my favorites) are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11076994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first MFK Fisher. I have been wanting to read her since 198something, when Julie Burchill, in one of her essays in The Face, mentioned her and how brilliant she was. Some 20-odd years later, I've finally done it. A thoughtful gift for a trip to France. To read this book, a memoir through food, mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4758272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love to read food writing: both non-fiction and fiction. I am almost ashamed to admit that I have not read anything by M.F.K. Fisher before now. Many regard her as one of the best food writers.<br/><br/>Fisher's The Gastronomical Me is a collection of autobiographical essays that cover time from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1725617">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few readers have heard of M.F.K. Fisher.  She’s often been relegated to the nebulous “food writing” category, stuck in some dusty corner with unworthy companions such as Jamie Oliver and Rachel Ray.  It’s a crying shame, really.  She has a wonderful, witty voice, and The Gastronomical Me is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29206406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[next time you sit down to eat, shut up and think about what you're doing.  think about where the food comes from, and what happened in the world that made it okay for it to be prepared this way, and think about the last time you had anything on the plate, and what THAT day was like, and who was ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3620114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series of essays was interesting, and full of rich descriptions.  My complaint is in the disjointedness of the essays (I mean within a single piece, not the cohesiveness of the collection) and to be honest, most of them were quite depressing.  Still, I'm hoping to read at least one more of her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54497167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love MFK Fisher.  I discovered her work in a &quot;foodie&quot; book group started by our local library a couple years ago.  She writes about food and cooking and eating in such a way that makes it more than a mundane experience.  Who knew there was so much to say about food?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot name a single person who shouldn't read this book. The short story format makes it easy to pick up, while universal yet all too human themes of love and hunger make the writing a balm for what ails you. <br/><br/>A few of the stories were familiar to me from another collections, but rewor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39588574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I devoured this book like one of the many deliciously described meals in its pages. So much more than a food-related biography, &quot;The Gastronomical Me&quot; takes you through some of the formative moments in MFK Fisher's life and the food that accompanied them. Fisher's writing is refreshingly c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49422564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MFK Fisher is a food-writing legend that I knew nothing about. I tried starting with one of her other books, &quot;How to Cook a Wolf,&quot; but I just couldn't get into it. It's like I had no context to understand it. Now that I know more about her, though, I might give that one another try.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22886167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because I'm a foodie and a Francophile, I'd tried to read M.F.K. Fisher in the past, but just didn't get her. There was an acerbic pessimism underlying her work that both surprised me and put me off. Then I read Gastronomical Me and all was understood, much forgiven. The first half of this book is h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22675740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly fantastic book.  Never have I thought about hunger in such philosophical and emotional terms.  The prose is fantasic and the snippets of her life instill the overwhelming need to either cook for someone you love or take your closest friends out to an amazing meal...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish Julia Child wrote about food more, aside from the commentary that prefaces her recipes. But, she didn't, so here we have MFK Fisher, and here we have her autobiography. Sauteed shallots are what catapaulted Julia to cookery; for Fisher, it was an oyster. That says a lot. She's a bit rambling,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7551891">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[amazing. the best part is her attitude about eating da sola!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Published in 1943, Fisher writes of her growing love affair of food, from a childhood in California to her early adulthood in Europe.  She writes also of the changing political climate in France and Switzerland.  It's really a combination of food and memoir, but I grew frustrated because of the hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17644081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love, Love Love this author!!!]]></body>
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