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M.F.K. Fisher - Her body of work

In chronological order by date of first publication and excluding limited editions:

Serve it Forth
New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1937


Touch and Go
New York: Harper, 1939 

(Pseudonym Victoria Berne)


Consider the Oyster
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941


How to Cook a Wolf
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942


The Gastronomical Me
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943


Here Let us Feast: A Book of Banquets
New York: Viking, 1946


Not Now But Now
New York: Viking, 1947


An Alphabet for Gourmets

New York: Viking, 1949


The Physiology of Taste, Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: A new translation by M.F.K. Fisher with Preface Annotations by the Translator and Illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage
New York: Limited Editions Club (George Macy Co.) 1949


The Art of Eating: Serve it Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me & An Alphabet for Gourmets
New York: World Books, 1954


A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man & Beast
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961


The Story of Wine in California
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962


Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964


The Cooking of Provincial France
New York: Time-Life Books, 1968


With Bold Knife and Fork
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969


Among Friends
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970


A Considerable Town
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978


As They Were
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982


Two Towns in Provence: Map of Another Town & A Considerable Town
New York: Vintage Books, 1983


Sister Age
New York: Random House, 1984


Fine Preserving: M.F.K. Fisher's Annotated Edition of Catherine Plagemann's Cookbook

Berkeley, Aris Book, 1986


Dubious Honors

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988


The Boss Dog

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991


Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon

New York: Prentice Hall, 1991


To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 

New York: Pantheon, 1992


Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941

New York: Pantheon, 1993


Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991

New York: Pantheon, 1995


M.F.K. Fisher, A Life in Letters: Correspondence 1929-1991  

Washington, DC: Counterpoint 1997

Selected and compiled by Norah K. Barr, Marsha Moran and Patrick Moran


From the Journals of M.F.K. Fisher: To Begin Again, Stay Me Oh Comfort Me & Last House  

New York: Pantheon 1999


The Measure of Her Powers : An M. F. K. Fisher Reader

Washington, DC: Counterpoint Press, 1999


A Stew or a Story: An Assortment of Short Works by M.F.K. Fisher  

Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard 2006

Gathered and Introduced by Joan Reardon


Love in a Dish  and other Pieces

London: Penguin 2011 

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint 2011

Selected and Introduced by Anne Zimmerman.


M.F.K. Fisher: Musings on Wine and Other Libations  

New York: Sterling Epicure 2012

Selected by Anne Zimmerman


M.F.K. Fisher’s Provence  

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint 2015

Photographs by Aileen Ah-Tye, Forward by Luke Barr

Text by M.F.K Fisher (From Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town)


The Theoretical Foot 

Berkeley, CA:  Counterpoint 2016

About this list:

For a detailed listing of her works, we suggest M.F.K. Fisher, An Annotated Bibliography by Donald Zealand and Randall Tarpey-Schwed with an introduction by Joan Reardon.


Check your local bookseller for availability. 


Titles at left with hyperlinks are in print and available for sale at www.amazon.com. 


Selected publications, including early editions, can often be found for sale at www.abebooks.com and www.thriftbooks.com.

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