Andrew's Reviews > The Art of Eating

I'm the natural audience for this, as someone who currently has three top shelf bourbons in his cabinet, who just looked up how to make a galantine this morning, you get the idea. But more importantly than being a "food writer" (obnoxious term that it's become), M.F.K. Fisher is an essayist in that fine tradition of snarky West Coast ladies of the mid-20th century. Really, her closest companions are Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, and Jessica Mitford, not Julia Child and Anthony Bourdain. In M.F.K. Fisher's writing, food is a way of talking about almost everything else in life. But when she's done with her metaphor, she's happy to provide you with a recipe.