M.F.K. Fisher

About the author

M.F.K.

Fisher was an American food writer and founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library who authored 27 books including Consider the Oyster (1941), How to Cook a Wolf (1942), and The Gastronomical Me (1943), as well as a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. She viewed eating well as one of the "arts of life" and explored this philosophy in her writing, earning praise from W.H.

Auden and recognition from the New York Times for her distinctive prose style that transcended food writing to celebrate life and human experience.