The Evolution of American Foodie Culture Examining the post-WWII foodie revolution that changed Americans’ perceptions of eating

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Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
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My favourite reads of July 2025. Books with passion, spark & life, expressed in prose that has space, music & flow. #MFKFisher The Gastronomical Me, #GeorgetteHeyer Faro's Daughter, Perez-Revente Purity Of Blood.

I just signed up for the MFK Fisher newsletter. Her book, The Art of Eating, changed the way I think about food. I modelled one of the essays in my book off hers.
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“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism In 1943, M.F.K. Fisher published The Gastronomical Me, an interwar food memoir chronicling her move from the US to Dijon, by way of Strasbourg, Lausanne, Marseille, Guadalajara. At the time, food w…

« TGM has all the underpinnings of a trendy, pulpy modern bestseller—mad sexual politics, farcical political theatre, a palpable homoeroticism. But most enduringly, Fisher had designs on something rather tricky : she aimed to tell the truth about women. » lithub.com/fidelity-to-...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11

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Why was MFK Fisher once described “as one of the great writers this country has produced in this century”?

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Who created the genre of #FoodMemoirs?

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What was the life-changing event that inspired MFK Fisher’s prose?

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Born Mary Frances Kennedy, what prompted her to rename herself MFK Fisher?

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Did you know that legendary cook Julia Child described MFK Fisher as a sensuous writer & renowned chef James Beard called MFK Fisher a mythological goddess?

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Among much else - how much I loved that every few years, she took measure of herself. #MFKFisher