Among Friends
by M. F. K. Fisher 
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In this poetic, sensitive memoir, M. F. K. Fisher traces her life from birth through childhood into adulthood through memories of her loving family and their lives as outsiders in the Quaker community of Whittier, California. Recalling the people, passions, sounds, and scents of her childhood, with its kindnesses and quiet cruelties, Fisher also portrays her developing interests in literature, food, and cooking. Elegantly and invitingly written, Among Friends demonstrates the writer's belief show more that every lesson, every lecture listened to, must be interpreted into a personal dialect of human language, and that is what I keep trying to do. show lessTags
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I hadn't read any MFK for a while and though I don't always like memoirs, this one was a fascinating window into a decade of nearly a century ago. She describes her childhood memories well with interesting portraits of the people around her in 1910s Whittier, California. It's dated, but interesting.
Personal memoirs of Fisher as she grew up in a non-Quaker family amid exclusively Quaker community. Known for her writings on cooking, this peek into her personal history makes fascinating reading.
An interesting and revealing, if jaundiced, view of the early twentieth century, largely mid-Western Orthodox, Quaker settlement of Whittier, California. Written by a formerly well known non-Quaker author.
An account by an author of growing up among Fiends in Whittier, California, in the early twentieth century.
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272+ Works 9,376 Members
Born July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan, M.F.K Fisher was raised primarily in Whittier, California, where she enjoyed cooking meals for her family. Encouraged in literary pursuits by her parents, she combined her favorite pastimes-cooking and writing-and began writing about cooking as early as 1929 when she moved to Dijon, France, with her first show more husband, Alfred Fisher. Fisher was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Dijon. She has written under the names Mary Frances Parrish, Victoria Bern, and Victoria Berne. A prolific author, her work is primarily autobiography and memoir. Her long list of publications includes Dubious Honors (1988) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1945, (1993). She also contributed articles to widely known magazines, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Gourmet. Fisher died of Parkinson's disease on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Important places
- Whittier, California, USA; California, USA
- First words
- There is a kind of withdrawal, courteous but cabalistic, that a person meets in trying to talk with Quakers about their faith, if he is not a member of the Society of Friends and is plainly not trying to become one.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)As the seed is planted...as the twig is bent...
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Food & Cooking
- DDC/MDS
- 641.092 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- TX649 .F5 .A29 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
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- Members
- 232
- Popularity
- 139,858
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 4
