archives and other articles

The following is an archive of past news items from this website as well as selected articles through the years that may be of interest.  Please feel free to send us a message if you find others you believe should be included.

• M.F.K. Fisher: Oysters, Sex, and Death ( A video recording of the celebration of the Californian maverick, feminist food writer M.F.K. Fisher at Pigott Theatre, British Library, London) - May 31, 2025

• What the Contrarians are Reading This Summer - July 11, 2025

• A WORLD OF IDEAS with Bill Moyers: M.F.K. Fisher (video) - Episode aired September 9, 1990 (Link courtesy of A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers [Ep. 229]: M.F.K. Fisher, September 9, 1990, Public Affairs Television & Doctoroff Media Group (New York, New York), American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. )

• UK Band Extradition Order Releases "Poet of the Appetites," an Album Inspired by M.F.K. Fisher - March 5, 2025

• The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years - November 15, 2024

• James Beard Foundation Announces 2024 Media Award Winners

• The human spirit belongs in nature: 2024 Last House Writing Contest winners explore the elements

• Joan Reardon, A Remembrance by Kennedy Golden - April 30, 2024

• LDEI Honors Exceptional Work in the Media with the 2023 M.F.K. Fisher Prize Winners - September 8, 2023

• Feeding Body and Spirit: Last House Writing Contest Winners Pen Powerful Stories Hunger - June 29, 2023

• Diaries of Note: "Why have children or plant trees?" - May 28, 2023

• The Art Of Eating’ Is A Must-See Documentary At The 34th Annual Palm Springs Int. Film Festival - January 6, 2023

• M.F.K. Fisher Taught Americans How to Nourish Bodies and Souls - Winter 2023

• The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher to Premiere at the 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival - October 11, 2022

• Three Women to Receive 2022 LDEI M.F.K. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Culinary Media Content - September 13, 2022

• Boston girl pens winning essay in the Third Annual M.F.K. Fisher Last House Writing Contest - June 29, 2022

• Love, sex and dangerous oysters: MFK Fisher’s decadent, sensuous food writing remains pure self-care from the Independent - June 22, 2022

• Audubon Canyon Ranch invites visitors into legendary author M.F.K. Fisher’s Glen Ellen home from the Press Democrat - May 19, 2022

• Savoring Sonoma spends the hour with Kennedy Golden from KRCB/Northern California Public Radio - April 24, 2022

• Kathleen Hill: Jacques Pêpin visit M.F.K. Fisher’s Last House from the Sonoma Index-Tribune - April 6, 2022

• What We Write About When We Write About Food from the New York Times - February 18, 2022

• Friends and Film Lovers Gather to Support Last House and a New Film About M.F.K. Fisher - October 29, 2021

• Les Dames d'Escoffier International Announces Winners of 2021 M.F.K. Fisher Prize for Excellence - October 8, 2021

• M.F.K. Fisher's Avocado from Reinventing Home - Fall 2021

• Meet the Local Firm That Helps Restaurateurs Realize Their Design Dreams from Sonoma Magazine - May/June 2022

• My first job with M.F.K. Fisher: Champagne in a tree stump, half-and-halfs, and a restoration dinner at Last House from Kenwood Press - May 15, 2022

• Mother and Daughter Win Top Prizes in Second Annual Last House Essay Contest from the Sonoma Index-Tribune - September 13, 2021

• Ruth Reichl on M.F.K. Fisher’s Lifetime of Joyous Eating from Literary Hub - July 3, 2019

• M.F.K. Fisher: Writer With a Bite by Kathi Wheater - August 4, 2014

• M.F.K. Fisher: Poet of the Appetities (a panel discussion) from The New School - August 5, 2010

• M.F.K. Fisher by Ruth Reichl from the Los Angeles Times - June 6, 1991

• M.F.K. Fisher on Writing and Old Women (a discussion with Bill Moyers) from billmoyers.com September 9, 1990

• For Writer M.F.K. Fisher, Dining Properly for the Holidays Is an Art : Christmas: She resists the temptation to be overly sentimental about family get-togethers. Instead, happy and sad memories coexist at this time of year. from the Los Angeles Times - November 24, 1989

• M.F.K. Fisher: on the art of golden words and memorable meals from the Christian Science Monitor - July 1, 1988