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Article: M.F.K. Fisher, Leading Food Writer
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 24, 1992
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M.F.K. Fisher, the peripatetic author whose crystalline prose and
keen observations raised food writing to the high art of literature,
is dead at age 83.
Mrs. Fisher, who had Parkinson's disease and arthritis, died
Monday at her home in Glen Ellen, Calif., said one of her two
daughters, Kennedy Wright.
From her childhood in Southern California through old age in
Northern California and across thousands of miles in between, Mrs.
Fisher was enthralled by food.
But critic Frances Taliaferro observed that calling her a
leading food writer was like calling Cezanne "the leading painter of
apples."
Mrs. Fisher instead used food as a means of exploring life, and
the passion she displayed ...