Serve It Forth

Name: Serve It Forth
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: M.F.K. Fisher
ISBN: 9781250484239

Author: M.F.K. Fisher

Narrator: Bryan Washington, Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 11/03/2026

Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking

Synopsis

A witty, idiosyncratic guided tour through culinaria past and present by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.

In Serve It Forth, her first book, M.F.K. Fisher is already in full bloom. She travels the byways and tables of history with her unique literary vision, laying bare the peculiarities, profundities, and absurdities of the eating (and thinking) life. She makes an equal feast of the sybaritic Roman diet and its decadent excesses as she does of the slow progress of the snail as it makes its arduous way from garden to escargot. Serve It Forth is an occasion for celebrating food in all its many hues and guises, under the guidance of our greatest modern food writer and philosopher.

About M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) is one of the world's most celebrated food writers. She is the author of numerous books of essays and reminiscences, largely about cooking, eating, and travel, including Serve It Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, and other American classics.

About Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novels Memorial, Family Meal, and Palaver. A National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree, he is the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and an O. Henry Prize, and he has been a finalist for a National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and more. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, his writing has also appeared in Granta, The New York Times Magazine, New York, Time, GQ, and Esquire, among many other places. He is based in Tokyo.

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Quotes

"[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