The Gastronomical Me

First published in 1943, this memoir treats eating as a record of places, marriages, and hunger. Fisher recalls a California childhood and the shock of first oysters, then years in Dijon and other French towns learning markets, kitchens, and how people behave at table. Later chapters move through travel, a second household, and the knowledge that appetite can mark grief as well as pleasure. Food is described in scenes rather than as recipes. There is no invented plot. The book is a first-person essay-memoir of learning to live through meals, not a restaurant guide and not a novel.

Bound in orange cloth, cover blocked in black and gold with an image. Lightweight printed slipcase.