First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher's life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, "a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge" deal with commonplace ailments--sore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life.
- ISBN10 0865470367
- ISBN13 9780865470361
- Publish Date 31 December 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint North Point Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 142
- Language English