They just don’t make ‘em like MFK anymore. Hot, ballsy and a chronic underachiever, she always knew what to order and who to order around while she was doing it.
Author Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher married poet Al Fisher and moved to Paris in 1929, falling gracefully into a life dedicated to making mouths water. She paved the way for Julia Child, as well as David Lebovitz and other ex-patriot foodies currently pointing and clicking their way through life abroad, blogging their findings to adoring fans stateside.
A proper, full-fledged biography, “An Extravagant Hunger,” has finally emerged about the late, great MFK; it chronicles her experience and struggle with writing (“The Gastronomical Me,” “Consider the Oyster,” “Serve It Forth”), as well as karate-kicking her way through the Great Depression and World War II, and the delights of unwed motherhood in a time when that just wasn’t done.
Below, check out a video that lovingly documents her unique contributions to our culinary canon (plus rare footage of MFK herself):
TOPICS: Eat to the Beat, Kathleen Willcox