Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets

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Unlike any other food writing you've read, Here Let Us Feast is a unique collection of excerpts from world literature concerned with eating and drinking, threaded together throughout by M.F.K. Fisher's unmatched voice and passion A warm, joyful and curious amalgam of food literature, history, memoir, and travel Reissued with a new introduction by beloved food writer Betty Fussell As much at home on the shelves of Cooking sections as in the Social Science, Literary History, or Gifts for Foodies sections Praise from Librarians and Booksellers "What a strange, gorgeous anthology! M.F.K. Fisher provides a delightful selection of food writing across history and across countries through the voices of inimitable writers. She provides the type of banter you'd expect from Ms. Fisher. Sassy, deeply knowledgeable. I can't help but be seduced by her pairings-Charles Lamb's story about the origin of roast suckling pigs with exquisite detail of their crisp heady crackling and explosive jelly eyes next to Lin Yutang's response to how nineteenth-century Chinese scholars would gather 'under the autumn moon or in the wilderness of chrysanthemums' and bring duck from one region, wine from another. This was the way to meditate and create art! I loved the thick selections of Tolstoy and Gogol, the way she combines the eatings of Wonderland and Utopia. And yeah, there are some racist bits in the intro: 'African savages know when they roast a tiger's heart for their god.' I don't know what to make of that and some of what she says about the Chinese. But I do love Mary Frances's writing and passion so very much. There is delight and discovery in her words. She shares that love and invites you to feast with her." --Young Eun Yook, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)