One Trick Pony

MFK Fisher is 100 today. I can’t believe I almost missed her birthday, but she is the single most influential foodie in my life, excluding my mother. Her writing is historic, thoughtful, and wholly sensory—with descriptions like the painful curling of truite au bleu flash cooked in broth or her languorous pea shelling ritual that makes eating a blessing rather than nutrition. There’s been thousands of words penned by and about her, so get thee to a bookstore/library and read “The Art of Eating.” The Chicago Tribune also did a nice little essay about her life here.