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Default M.F.K. Fisher's 100th Anniversary today!

On Jul 3, 12:45*pm, aem > wrote:
> On Jul 3, 8:13*am, wrote:
>
> > She died in 1993.

>
> >http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...her-birthday-2...
> > *(yesterday's article: Marking M.F.K. Fisher's 100th birthday)

>
> > First lines:

>
> > M.F.K. Fisher, who would have turned 100 on Thursday, was one of the
> > first food writers to untangle all that's bound up in eating: the
> > pleasure, the sentiment, the anxiety. * [snip interesting links]

>
> She wrote really well. *A good one to start with is "The Art of
> Eating" but you can hardly go wrong with anything she wrote. * *-aem


Did you ever read "Two Towns in Provence"? I only made it through a
couple of chapters -- I'm trying to decide whether or no to give it
anoter go....

..fred