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The Gastronomical Me

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M.F.K. Fisher - 1943

If one imagines M.F.K.

Fisher's life as a large colorful painting, it is here, in The Gastronomical Me, that one sees the first lines and sketches upon which that life was based. In what is the most intimate of her five volumes of her "Art of Eating" series, the reader witnesses the beginnings of a writer who, with food as her metaphor, writes of the myriad hungers and satisfactions of the heart.

Chicken Every Sunday: My Life with Mother's Boarders

Rosemary Taylor - 1943

One of the boarders who ate Mother's chicken every Sunday summed it up when he said, "I was told that in your house I'd have good food and some fun." They all had fun, and they all became part of the family -- Jeffrey, who lost his front teeth and won his independence, Rita Vlasak, who loved anything in pants, including Father, Miss Sally, who loved Miss Sally and cold cream, the Lathams, who bought a mine, and even the hell-bent-for-heaven Woolleys, who were sure God had sent the skunk to hide under the house because the family didn't go to church on Sunday.

If you have room for some fun and old-fashioned enjoyment, Mother's sure to have room for you.

Thus far and no further

Rumer Godden - 1943

Rumer Godden's first work of non-fiction, and only her 6th overall book, again as with other early works heavily influenced by her residence in Kashmir, India, where she lived with her two daughters from 1942-1944.

A fascinating book of local northwest India & Tibet tribes-people and their cultures.

My Indian Family: A Story of East and West Within a Muslim Home

Hilda Wernher - 1943

Best ofMemoir

1943

The Gastronomical Me

Chicken Every Sunday: My Life with Mother's Boarders

Thus far and no further

My Indian Family: A Story of East and West Within a Muslim Home

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