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In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria that washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life, Zimmerman exquisitely captures the breadth and stories of Fisher's love for food and her love for family and men. Exploring Fisher's lonely and formative time in Europe with her first husband; her subsequent divorce and re-marriage to her...

Upper East Side stay at home mother, Reilly Peterson, stumbles onto a terrorist plot while playing with her gregarious children in Central Park. Because she is obsessed with political correctness, she is hesitant to call the authorities and pursues the could-be terrorists on her own. As she becomes more certain of the plot, she drags in an overweight old boyfriend, her stylish investment banker husband, a new preppy mom friend and her politically incorrect best friend, Jenn. Together, they shop, interpret Farsi, discuss Middle Eastern affairs and ruthlessly bash Republicans. While the ad hoc...

Whether the subject of her fancy is the lowly, unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that belies the complexities of the life she often muses on. She is hailed as one of America's preeminent writers about gastronomy, but limiting her to that genre would be a disservice. A passionate and well-traveled woman, her narratives fill over two dozen highly acclaimed books. In this collection of some of her finest works, Fisher demonstrates a palette well-trained not only in gastronomical masterpieces, but in...