This August, 1992 edition of Petit Propos Culinaires, a scholarly international journal on food, food history, cookery and cookery books contains a very insightful tribute and obituary of M.F.K. Fisher, who died in June, 1992. Alan Davidson says"...although food was the main theme of many of [Fisher's books] it was at most the core and never the whole; indeed much of her writing was of a scope so broad that one could best describe it as being about life.", and he quotes Elgy Gillespie who said "to label MFK as 'a cookery writer would be like calling Sir Richard Burton a travel writer'". pp. 13-14.