Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets
New York: Viking, 1946.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. A few pages with faint offsetting from something previously laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket with slight soiling and tanning on the rear panel and modest edgewear. An overview of the eating habits in both ancient and modern literature.
Item #78659
M.F.K. Fisher
birth name: Mary Frances Kennedy
born: 7/3/1908
died: 6/22/1992
nationality: USA
Biography
Writer whose compelling style, wit, and interest in the gastronomical made her one of the major American writers on the subject of food. In her 15 celebrated books, Fisher created a new genre: the food essay. Seeing food as a cultural metaphor, she proved to be both an insightful philosopher of food and a writer of fine prose. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore