Serve It Forth

By M.F.K. Fisher

Book Overview

A witty, idiosyncratic guided tour through culinaria past and present by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.

In Serve It Forth, her first book, M.F.K. Fisher is already in full bloom. She travels the byways and tables of history with her unique literary vision, laying bare the peculiarities, profundities, and absurdities of the eating (and thinking) life. She makes an equal feast of the sybaritic Roman diet and its decadent excesses as she does of the slow progress of the snail as it makes its arduous way from garden to escargot. Serve It Forth is an occasion for celebrating food in all its many hues and guises, under the guidance of our greatest modern food writer and philosopher.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250457823
• ISBN13: 9781250457820
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the Great Writers of the 20th Century

This first book, a collection of essays by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, offers many examples of her brilliance. Especially wonderful are "The Standing and the Waiting" and "Cesar."