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On Saturday, August 2nd, there is an exclusive screening of The Art of Eating  from 6pm to 7:45pm at the Skyway Center, 655 Skyway Road, San Carlos.  There is a 5:30pm champagne reception for all donors – screening to follow. Tickets at kjproduction@aol.com.

“THE ART OF EATING: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher” screening at the Sequoia Cinema in Mill Valley last Thursday sold out all 300 seats. Most of the attendees visited the Anthony Meier Gallery before to enjoy “Consider the Oyster,” an exhibition of 14 female artists’ works inspired by Fisher. We have scheduled a special Encore Screening for this Thursday, July 31 at 6pm. The gallery will be open from 10am-5:30pm. For those who have seen the movie before there are some new surprises in this final version that first showed last week. Following the screening Director Gregory Bezat will be joined by Jerry Anne Di Vecchio, a longtime close friend of M.F. K. Fisher, who was Senior Food & Wine Editor at Sunset Publishing. She will have many terrific stories to tell.
For more info and to buy tickets: https://www.sequoiafilm.org/art-of-eating/

Jerry worked at the magazine for over 40 years. She has edited dozens of cookbooks, including The Peppers Cookbook, the Grill by the Book series and 15 Best of Sunset books. Jerry was a founding member of the San Francisco chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, and was the 2001 recipient of their Grand Dame lifetime achievement award. She has held positions at the American Institute of Wine & Food and the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and has been a judge on MasterChef. Despite her illustrious career, Jerry never uses a cookbook. ” Courtesy of “Eating Well.”

We are honored to have THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. FISHER invited to be a featured event at “The M.F.K. Fisher Symposium for Women in Food & Storytelling” with an introduction by chef and cookbook author Joan Nathan. Shortly after her recent book tour for “My Life in Recipes” Joan watched our film and wrote, “I wish I had seen this movie before I interviewed Mary Frances in the late 1980s. It revealed her essence, a movie for every fan of M.F.K. Fisher to watch.”

We are close to raising the final funds necessary to get to a final version and start making the film widely available. If you or people you know would be interested in helping with this, please write to bezatvideo@gmail.com and we can discuss opportunities. This is a 501(c) 3 non-profit project and there are tax write-off benefits.

We can’t think of a better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than to encourage people to read the books by and about M.F.K. Fisher. People often ask, “What should I read?”  With 34 published books we suggest starting with “The Art of Eating,” a collection of early works. It includes “The Gastronomical Me” is an especially seductive first experience. (Each of the five are also available as separate volumes.)

Curious about a Mary Frances novel? “Not Now But Now” makes one wish she’d taken more forays into fiction. While MFKF is thought of as a writer about food rather than creating cookbooks, there are plenty of recipes to be found throughout her work and one that mixes 140 dishes to make with evocative memories is “With Bold Knife and Fork.”

Or maybe you want to sample work spanning her life. “The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader” is just what you need.

Here is a complete list of her books.

PAST SCREENINGS:

Jarvis Conservatory, Napa. With special guests in attendence: director Gregory Bezat, producer Gary Meyer, Kennedy Golden, M.F.K. Fisher’s daughter and Antonia Allegra, a close friend of Mary Frances who is an award-winning wine, food, and travel writer whose books include Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guide.

Moderator: Clark Wolf, one of America’s top restaurant consultants. Co-presented with the Napa Valley Historical Society.

AVFilm in Healdsburg screening:

Director Gregory Bezat, Chef Kyle Connaughton (SingleThread), food writers Jerry Di Vecchio and Michele Anna Jordan,  in conversation.

We are proud to have played at these Film Festivals and Events:

Fairhope Film Festival, Fairhope, Alabama – BEST FILM in Festival Award

Glimmerglass Film Days, Cooperstown, NY

Festival Internacional Cine de Morelia, Mexico

Glen Ellen Historical Society Fundraiser  

BIOGRAFILM Festival, European Premier Bologna, Italy.  Read the review here

Filmfest DC   Washington DC Premier

Sonoma International Film Festival

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Mill Valley Film Festival in association with San Francisco Litquake.

Devour! Nova Scotia, Canada

Restaurant Week, Newport, Rhode Island

Indie Memphis Film Festival

Last House Luncheon
Greg Bezat, Gary Meyer, Kennedy Golden, and Clark Wolf joined food writer Marion Nestle for  at Fisher’s Last House on the Audubon Canyon Ranch Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen.