Word: fisherisms
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...three women, it is not just the food that appeals; it is the shared meal, the meaningful conversation, the good wine. Perhaps at times they sound a bit precious or snobbish, these women with their negligees and aperitifs, but Fisher, Child, and Waters have all promoted everyday eating as sensuous and delightful, as a necessary celebration...
...Fisher, who died in 1992, wrote all about food--from Queen Elizabeth's breakfasts, to cooking with war rations, to her own favorite indulgences. Like Child and Waters after her, she was not particularly gourmet while growing up but tell in love with food during a stay in France. So in her writings Fisher hoped to promote the sort of "education of the palate" that she had received abroad...
...Wolf. But she herself was not the average housewife; an issue of Look magazine from that same year featured her "growing grapes on her ranch, discussing a script with a well-known actor, and revising a manuscript in a negligee with a glass of sherry in hand." Yet while Fisher was certainly refined in her tastes, she was also the palate's propagandist, urging her readers to savor buttered toast as she would sherry...
This desire to celebrate life through food and drink unites the three women in Reardon's book, through their particular tastes vary. Meanwhile their individual stories cast faint reflections of life outside the kitchen, from Fisher's Hollywood of the 1940's to Child's "02138 zip code set" in '60s Cambridge, to Waters' present-day Berkeley...
...youngest of the three women in Reardon's book. Waters is featured last, her story playing dessert as Fisher's did hors d'ocuvre. But the entree, naturally, is Reardon's portrait of Julia Child, the six foot tall throaty-voiced diva who brought bouillabaise to thousands of living rooms. Julia--who in college wanted to be either a novelist or a professional basketball player and liked to perform tom-tom dances, who sought during WWII to be trained as a spy and was eventually posted to Ceylon, who finally turned to cooking--Julia dominates the book...