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M . F . K . FISHER Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1 908-1 992) has an enigmatic place in Ameri­ can letters, being perhaps undervalued as a serious writer and overvalued, or at least overmystified, as a cult figure. Many regard her as the patron saint and paragon of modern food writing. She herself said, "I do not consider myself a food writer. " Yet a good deal of her output was for magazines such as Food and Wine and Gourmet. Certainly food was her primary subject matter, and her achievement was to use this seemingly mundane concern as a metaphor for the analysis…

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