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Article: The Poetics of M. F. K. Fisher.
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M. F. K. Fisher once said, "I do not consider myself a food writer" (qtd. in Lopate 545). Notwithstanding her view, she remains known for her copious body of writing on gastronomy and her English translation of Brillat-Savarin's famous 1825 treatise on eating, The Physiology of Taste, though she also wrote poetry, novels, a screenplay, essays, and stories, all on topics other than food. How do we reconcile Fisher's self-perception with her reputation? Phillip Lopate suggests that we consider food to be Fisher's defining metaphor. He writes, "Certainly food was her primary subject matter, and her achievement was to use this seemingly mundane concern as a metaphor for the ...
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