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I Was Really Very Hungry: A Portrait of M.F.K. Fisher
Written by M.F.K. Fisher
Narrated by Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, David Tierney and
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A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and influential gourmet.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production featuring: Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, Jennifer Friedmann, Lily Shaw and David Tierney.
Directed by Paul Frellick and recorded before a live audience.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production featuring: Anne Archer, Kurt Ehrmann, Jennifer Friedmann, Lily Shaw and David Tierney.
Directed by Paul Frellick and recorded before a live audience.
Author
M.F.K. Fisher
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908–1992) was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. At the age of twenty-one she moved from America to France, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time, and it inspired a prolific writing career centred on a new way of thinking about food and travel. She was a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Gourmet and Vogue, and is the author of twenty-seven books of food, memoir and travel, many of which have become classics. These include Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf and The Gastronomical Me.
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