My wife is a great champion of the food writer and memoirist MKF Fischer and often reads me excerpts. I've become a fan myself as Fischer's writing is spare, modern, dark and amusing.
These are Fischer's chapter headings (always great) from How to Cook a Wolf, a book published in 1942.
3 How to Be Sage Without Hemlock
10 How to Catch the Wolf
14 How to Distribute Your Virtue
26 How to Boil Water
46 How to Greet the Spring
53 How Not to Boil an Egg
66 How to Keep Alive
72 How to Rise Up Like New Bread
80 How to be Cheerful Through Starving
86 How to Make a Pigeon Cry
121 How to Pray for Peace
133 How to Be Content with a Vegetable Love
138 How to Make a Great Show
145 How to Have a Sleek Pelt
151 How to Comfort Sorrow
163 How to Be a Wise Man
167 How to Lure the Wolf
If you don't know Fischer's writing, I recommend this small except from The Gastronomical Me on the moment she discovered food. The passage also happens to be a nice piece on fatherhood.
Comments:
What a lovely passage, and such a coincidence--I have one of her books by my table here ready to read.
Have you heard about the discovery of Virginia Maier's work ?
It makes me tearful thinking that she never had appreciation in her lifetime for her work. Check out her self-portraits:
http://www.vivianmaier.com/portfolios/chicago/?pid=108
http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/2010/03/vivian-maier.html