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An anthology of writings by the acclaimed author of Among Friends presents a witty and wise selection of stories and reminiscences reflecting more than forty years in the author's career. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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9780679415763 | Pantheon Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Includes a witty and wise selection of stories and reminiscences reflecting more than forty years in the author's career

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Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there
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9781560544715 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there

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A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family's favorite cafes
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9780679738602 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family's favorite cafes

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Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there
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9780139295485 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there

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9780671755140 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there

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Product Description: Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir and part fiction, this adventure is presided over by an aloof and proprietary mongrel, the Boss Dog, who frequents the young family's favorite cafe. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781560541967 | Large print edition (North Point Pr, August 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family's favorite cafes
9780865474659 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aiz-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family's favorite cafes

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9780865476301 | North Point Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence.

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Bringing together twenty of the author's prefaces to books by other writers and fifteen to her own, this volume collects a variety of observations on life, art, travel, food, and drink
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9780865473188 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bringing together twenty of the author's prefaces to books by other writers and fifteen to her own, this volume collects a variety of observations on life, art, travel, food, and drink

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9780865474147 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Bringing together twenty of the author's prefaces to books by other writers and fifteen to her own, this volume collects a variety of observations on life, art, travel, food, and drink

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Discusses dining alone, meals of celebration, bachelor cooking, the correct attitude for a gourmet, and various foods (view table of contents)
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9780865473911 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Discusses dining alone, meals of celebration, bachelor cooking, the correct attitude for a gourmet, and various foods

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The author recounts her first experiences with various foods, recalls memorable meals, and describes her travels (view table of contents)
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9780865473928 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author recounts her first experiences with various foods, recalls memorable meals, and describes her travels

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9780943998152 | Prince st Editions, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.95

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Essays and anecdotes on the subject of gastronomy and culinary history discuss the abuses of the potato, the furtive enjoyment of 'secret eatings,' and the culinary customs of ancient Greece, the Roman empire, and medieval Europe. Reissue.
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9780865473690 | Reissue edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1989), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Essays and anecdotes on the subject of gastronomy discuss the abuses of the potato, the furtive enjoyment of 'secret eatings,' and the culinary customs of ancient Greece, the Roman empire, and medieval Europe.

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Product Description: M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods---the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared à la Rockefeller or au naturel--and of the pearls sometimes found therein--Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in he 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold succulence" of raw oysters as a young woman in Marseille and Dijon, and explores both the bivalve's famed aphrodisiac properties and its equally notorious gut-wrenching powers...read more
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9780865473355 | Reissue edition (North Point Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: M.

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Product Description: Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K...read more
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9780865473362 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table.

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Product Description: In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy like Sister Age" But in the stories, it is the human strength in the unavoidable encounter with the end of life that Mrs...read more
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9781557360403 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.
9780394530666 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fifteen stories by the acclaimed writer focus on the art and processes of aging and living and dying, the implacable strength of age, the passing of identity, and the importance of witnessing death

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9780394723853 | Vintage Books, May 1, 1984, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Fifteen narratives by the acclaimed writer focus on the art and processes of aging and living and dying, the implacable strength of age, the passing of identity, and the importance of witnessing death

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9780870066047 | Answer key edition (Goodheart-Willcox Pub, December 1, 1986), cover price $2.00

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Provides recipes for making jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, conserves, chutneys, marmalades, ketchups, vinegars, and brandied fruit
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9780943186351 | Aris Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Provides recipes for making jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, conserves, chutneys, marmalades, ketchups, vinegars, and brandied fruit

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Product Description: M.F.K. Fisher is our host for the potluck of the ages, and there could be no better. The celebrated author of such books as The Art of Eating, Cooking of Provincial France, and With Bold Knife and Fork knows how to prepare a feast of reading as no other...read more
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9780865472068 | Rev sub edition (North Point Pr, September 1, 1986), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: M.

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Provides recipes for making jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, conserves, chutneys, marmalades, ketchups, vinegars, and brandied fruit
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9780943186313 | Aris Books, August 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Provides recipes for making jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, conserves, chutneys, marmalades, ketchups, vinegars, and brandied fruit

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Describes the author's experiences while traveling in France and portrays the cultures of the French towns of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
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9780394716312 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1983, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes the author's experiences while traveling in France and portrays the cultures of the French towns of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence

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Product Description: In this stylish novel, M.F.K. Fisher follows the course of Jennie, a willful, wandering woman, a lovely enchantress calculating the havoc caused by her life of danger and license. Not Now but Now is Fisher's only novel. In it she traces the subtleties and nuances of a woman's mind...read more
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9780865470729 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In this stylish novel, M.

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Describes traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present
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9780865470354 | North Point Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Describes traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present

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Product Description: M.F.K. Fisher's essay on the Gare de Lyon and its magnificent Train Bleu restaurant introduces Judith Clancy's 32 drawings and collages (accompanied by the artist's notes) of that lovely Paris railroad station.
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9780912184036 | Synergistic Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book tells the story--through his published work, selections fromunpublished manuscripts, 44 drawings not seen publicly prior to this publication and abiographical introduction by co-editor Bud Johns--of Herman Spector.

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9780912184029 | Synergistic Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: M.

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Product Description: Published in 1825 after some three decades of consuming research, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book ever written about food. It remains among the most comprehensive, stimulating, and just plain enjoyable works ever published on the subject of the senses and their pleasures...read more
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9780156717700 | Harcourt, October 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Published in 1825 after some three decades of consuming research, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book ever written about food.

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The author writes about her passion for Marseilles--a city she has known for half a century--describing all aspects of past and present life in the ancient seaport
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9780394427119 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The author writes about her passion for Marseilles--a city she has known for half a century--describing all aspects of past and present life in the ancient seaport

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An introduction to the cooking of France includes a recipe book and a kitchen guide bound separately
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9780316262507 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1968, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the cooking of France includes a recipe book and a kitchen guide bound separately

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9780809400843 | Silver Burdett Pr, June 1, 1940, cover price $1.80

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