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4/5/11: An Extravagant Hunger

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, Utah – The culinary writer M.F.K. Fisher pioneered a radical idea about food. She suggested that however complicated or simple - from a five-course meal to an egg sandwich - food was meant to be a sensual experience. In a new biography, Utah native Anne Zimmerman traces Fisher's passion for food as well as her other "lifelong hungers." Tuesday, Doug talks to Zimmerman about M.F.K. Fisher's writing and about her professional and private appetites.

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