Among Friends

Among Friends is M. F. K. Fisher's fascinating memoir of her childhood in Whittier, California. In sharing these memorable and moving portraits of her family and of the town, we are given an enchanting glimpse into the early life of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers. Book jacket.

In a career that extended from the late 1930s to her death in 1992, M. F. K. Fisher wrote twenty-six books. Widely known as the woman who elevated food writing to a literary art, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received lifetime achievement awards from the James Beard Foundation and The American Institute of Wine and Food

Prologue: Child of an Inner ``Ghetto''

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Part I The Family

Then Begin Again

21

(7)

A Footnote on the Scabrous Possibilities of the Most Innocent of Publications, Such as ``The Miriam Cook Book''

28

(4)

The Predilection for Lame Ducks

32

(24)

The Bodies and Otherwise

56

(6)

Love Blemished but Abiding

62

(35)

The First and Best Batties

97

(9)

Our ``Girls'' and a Few Ladies

106

(15)

Part II The Town

Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War

121

(16)

Culture and Music and All That

137

(10)

Lightened Heart and Quickened Energies

147

(13)

Dance of the Slow Learner

160

(17)

The Best View

177

(11)

A Palace Incident

188

(10)

A Pagan Ornament

198

(7)

The Haunts of Sin and Iniquity

205

(10)

Part III . . . And Beyond

Fugues and Evasions

215

(16)

Flora and a Few Fauna

231

(20)

A Footnote on Fauna, Largely Secret

251

(9)

The Separation of the Senses, or Not

260

(19)

Notes on Following the Gleam

279

(13)

Streets of Gold Forsworn

292

(8)

Petitions, Manifestoes, Broadsides, and Such

300

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