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- DIED. M.F.K. Fisher, 83, eloquent doyen of food writers; in
- Glen Ellen, Calif. In hundreds of pieces for the New Yorker and
- 15 books, Fisher elevated the subject of food to a cultural
- metaphor during her 60-year career. In 1963 poet W.H. Auden
- called her "America's greatest writer." Noting that for many
- years critics dismissed her subject as "a trifle," Fisher
- riposted, "It seems to me that our three most basic needs, for
- food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and
- entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the
- others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really
- writing about love."
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