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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1977 July 3.

BIB_ID
293992
Accession number
MA 4786.72
Creator
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
Display Date
1977 July 3.
Credit line
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of ca. 225 typed and autograph letters, postcards, and notes from M.F.K. Fisher to David Pleydell-Bouverie. Items in this collection are described in individual records; see MA 4786 for more information.
Provenance
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
Summary
Sending him the recipe for cheese wafers (not included in this collection); emphasizing that cooks should "follow recipes correctly and religiously"; noting that one should not substitute "mediocre or cheap materials for the best ones, and only the best should be used in honest cooking"; commenting on the difference between "what is good cheese and what even rats won't eat," and adding that "one of the latter is what is bought in supermarkets"; stressing that cheese must be "unprocessed natural"; quoting Edmund Burke: "expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy."