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Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Three

March 13, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Piccolo: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table

For this (third) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 4, In Julia’s Kitchen (pp. 111 – 150).

The chapter starts: “Kitchens* have not always been Julia Child’s mise-en-scène. In fact her recollections of the one in the big, brown-shingled house on South Pasadena Avenue where she grew up…

* “In November 2001, when Julia Child left her Massachusetts home of forty-two years to return to her native California, she gave her kitchen to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Behring Center. More…”

Our Piccolo is a quick, short, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays, 11am – noon. This time we’re meeting at Acre Coffee in Montgomery Village, Santa Rosa.

The selections are from light, chatty, gossipy storytelling.

No need to RSVP. Just drop by for a piccolo.

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Library Journal about M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table

Reardon (Oysters, LJ 10/15/84), whose articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor, serves up a savory biographical repast about three women who revolutioned the culinary arts in America. Breaking the traditional mold of describing food merely in terms of process and presentation, each brought forth unbridled artistic aspects previously unknown to the culinary scene.

The author recounts how M.F.K. Fisher’s culinary writings have reminded readers that food is not only a necessity but an art. She reveals how Julia Child, the grande dame of televised cookery, cultivated a renewed interest in French cuisine and gourmet foods for many Americans and how Alice Waters popularized the traditions of California cookery from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, with her emphasis on fresh, locally grown, and seasonal ingredients. Reardon discusses mutual friendships and parallels in the lives of these three women. She emphasizes that, with roots in California and strong influences from France, each has instilled a new artistic spirit in American cookery. Recommended for general readers.
Michael A. Lutes, Univ. of Notre Dame Lib., Ind.

Bibliographic Description of Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table

Author Reardon, Joan, 1930-
Title M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters : celebrating the pleasures of the table / Joan Reardon.
Imprint New York : Harmony Books, c1994.
Edition 1st ed.

Descript xvi, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents James Beard — Simone (Simca) Beck — Elizabeth David — Lindsey Shere — Julia Child.
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.
Subject Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Child, Julia.
Waters, Alice.
Cooks — United States — Biography.
Food writers — United States — Biography.
Alt Title MFK Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters.
Celebrating the pleasures of the table.
LC CARD # 94008650
ISBN 0517577488

Details

Date:
March 13, 2017
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Slow Food Russian River Book Group
Email
sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com

Venue

Acre Coffee @ Montgomery Village Shopping Center
Montgomery Village Shopping Center, 2365 Midway Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405 United States
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