63. M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman

Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to discuss Fisher and her World War II-era book How to Cook a Wolf, which was an attempt to teach people how to eat well and be well amidst personal and collective chaos.

Discussed in this episode: 

An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher by Anne Zimmerman

How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Peg Bracken

The Art of Eating Well by M.F.K. Fisher

“The Wolf at the Door” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

Schlesinger Library at Harvard

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