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

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:
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> 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