In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.
- ISBN10 0865473692
- ISBN13 9780865473690
- Publish Date 18 September 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint North Point Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 146
- Language English