By this time most people know what to expect from M.F.K. Fisher and wont think they are going to get an encyclopedia of cooking from this title. Once again, as always, she is good reading for anyone interested in the fine art of cookery. Completely unorthodox, both in her likes and dislikes. Imagine anyone holding a brief for fried egg sandwiches (albeit limited to place and age) and milk toast- for Quails a la Financiere and Trout Brillat-Savarin- for a dozen and more other things as contradictory. This book is a merry, sometimes biting, often passionate defense of the lover's approach to food- any kind of food. Her likes and dislikes march through the pages; family dinners are given a new slant; her settings take one round the world; her gastronomical creed captures one's imagination. And I defy anyone who likes to cook to refrain from copying some of the recipes. An addition for the specialist's cookery shelf.
Pub Date: Sept. 19, 1949
ISBN: 0865473919
Page Count: 232
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: May 17, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1949
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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