"[Fisher] was unsurpassed in her heady evocation of food, her catholic delight in all things edible, and her wide-ranging curiosity." --Andrea Thompson, The New Yorker "A delightful book. It is erudite and witty and experienced and young." -- The New York Times Book Review "Sometimes funny, sometimes sorrowful, always full of the rich juices of keenly felt life." --Clifton Fadiman "[Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful." --Ruth Reichl "The best prose writer in America." --W. H.

Auden "Poet of the appetites." --John Updike "A monument." --Julia Child "One of the world's finest food writers and, in the eyes of many, the grand dame of gastronomy." --James Villas "M.F.K. Fisher . brings onstage a peach or a brace of quail and shows us history, cities, fantasies, memories, emotions.

" --Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books "One of my great heroes." --Jacques Pepin "A delightful book. It is erudite and witty and experienced and young." -- The New York Times Book Review.