num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Serve It Forth
titlecomplete: Serve It Forth (Art of Eating)
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Food Writing, Food, Nonfiction, Cooking, History, Food and Drink, Memoir, France
ratings_count: 982
publisher: North Point Press