In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. "The Gastronomical Me" is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent.

M.F.K. 费雪（Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher ,1908-1992）美国饮食文学界的指路明灯。其身后诸多饮食书写者追随着她的脚步,却从未超出她的高度。

1937年,费雪出版《循香记》,轰动文坛,因其文笔老练,全无小女人散文虚矫之气,以至于众多文评家都误以为此书为一男子所作,成为一时笑谈。她一生写作了二十几本书,涵盖历史、文化、自然、哲学等多个方面,而最受人推崇的,还是她的饮食文学写作。她的饮食文章,不仅告诉读者如何烹饪,更糅合了个人经验和时代背景,充溢着生命哲理和激情。深刻影响了一代美国人的生活观念。

1978年,费雪因在饮食文学方面的成就和影响力被授予杰出女性成就奖（the Grande Dame Award）；1992年,以她的名字命名的文学奖项“费雪奖”（M.F.K. Fisher Award）设立,用以嘉奖在饮食、家居、营养学等方面成就卓越的女性作家。