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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 3 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | First published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperses them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher’s life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge” deal with commonplace ailmentssore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | M. F. K. Fisher | | Paperback: | 160 pages | | Publisher: | Counterpoint | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1593760299 | | Product Length: | 7.68 inches | | Product Width: | 5.74 inches | | Product Height: | 0.53 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.42 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.68 inches | | Package Width: | 5.74 inches | | Package Height: | 0.53 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.42 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 3 reviews |
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Literary Medicine Sep 24, 1998
With her distinct voice, M.F.K. Fisher discusses the medical, cultural, social, and emotional attributes of traditional folk remedies and medical treatments. This small, gentle book is a "must" read for those interested in new age, herbal, and alternative treatment for maladies, illnesses, and the physical and mental stresses of contemporary society. It could be effectively argued that this book is a classic in the way it discusses our reliance, and more effective usage, of plants, elixers, and other "cordial waters" to enhance our sense of wholeness.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
To your health Feb 22, 2010
By wogan
"the book reader"
MFK Fisher is such a marvelous author, my advice to anyone even halfway interested in cooking is to read everything she ever wrote. This book is different in the sense that it has `receipts' to cure ills. There is much that would be of interest to anyone fascinated in natural remedies and medicine.
Fisher describes many cures in short little chapters from how to treat a cold, (lemonade, or brandy, or sage leaves, or onions) to how to cure a hangover. There is advice in each chapter and her thoughts are integrated, including those on the perils of obesity and the fad dieting to cure it, or to avoid it. You have to remember this is a reissue, written originally in 1961. I appreciated Fisher's updated preface in 1980. She died in 1992.
This truly is an interesting little book, one many would find worthy of note, both to read and maybe to even attempt some of the tried and true folk remedies.
 M F K Fisher Jun 01, 2011
By Charles Kennedy
"charleechicken"
You do not need a purpose to read Fisher. Her prose is great good fun in itself. I enjoy her clean simple prose with a sly bit of wit mixed in.
I would suggest another of her books Long Ago in France. a great memoir.
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