I also read cookbooks with the greatest of interest, a genre in which M.F.K. Fisher's The Art of Eating participates, though most of her five collected works are extremely personal gastronomy, in a style which Fisher can almost be said to have invented as well as perfected. The cookbooks these women authored influenced the cooking and eating habits of the entire nation enormously, but their own lives and influences couldn't have been more different. But she's excellent at conveying Child's energy, her tireless pursuit of the right way to do things, her personal politics. Many excellent cookbooks have come from the pens of these gifted cooks and their collaborators, but these are the first concentrating on the signature dishes of their influential restaurants. Luckily, I consider both places to be my neighborhood restaurants.
Food is fun.
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