By M. F. K. Fisher, Aileen Ah-Tye
The ebook highlights her powerful feel of position - Fisher’s Celtic eye for element - with a comparability of Aix-en-Provence, a school city, the location of a world song pageant and the previous capital of Provence, and Marseille, the port city.
Fisher’s description of the points of interest and scents belonging to an Aix bakery store window is her Platonic perfect of a bakery store to be discovered wherever in France, for instance, with its “delicately layered” scents of “fresh eggs, clean candy butter, grated butter, vanilla beans, previous kirsch and newly floor almonds.”
Then, there's her portrayal of the sounds of Aix’s fountains combined with the song of Mozart in the course of the town’s pageant, leaving her bedazzled. She may go back time and again to walk the slim streets of Aix with younger daughters who “seemed to develop like water-flowers lower than the greening buds of the airplane trees.”
It is the standard of Fisher’s writing that encouraged photographer Aileen Ah-Tye to appear for her Provence. In a letter to Fisher, Aileen may record again from Marseille: “The eels and the prickly rascasse have been exotique to my San Francisco eyes, the smells as stinky as you will get, and . . . miracle of all miracles . . . the boys and ladies at the docks have been precisely as you defined them.”
Thus, begun a collaboration that illustrates Fisher’s ardour for all times and all its sensual pleasures that nourish the soul.
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