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Thompson, Sylvia.

FEASTS AND FRIENDS: Recipes From a Lifetime. Foreword by M.F.K. Fisher.

1988 1st San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1988. First edition. ISBN 0865473501. Thompson's fourth cookbook, a eclectic selection of over 150 recipes mixed with delightful autobiographical anecdotes of her gastronomic education in the kitchens of her grandmother, mother, and friends; encounters with various cultures and cuisines; and memories of her mother's dinner parties, where Groucho Marx would hold forth from the table and Robert Benchley traded recipes. The daughter of actress Gloria Stuart, Sylvia Thompson is also the goddaughter of M.F.K. Fisher, a lifelong friend of Stuart's. Inscribed and dated by Thompson on the front flyleaf. Fine in fine jacket.

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