The Bread and the Knife

"You'll wish the alphabet had more letters just so Dawn Drzal would keep on writing.” — Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate , Julia Child , Something from the Oven , and Perfection Salad   As it was for M. F. K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me , food is more than a metaphor in The Bread and the Knife . It is the organizing principle of an existence. Starting with "A Is for Al Dente," the loosely linked chapters evoke an alphabet of food memories that recount a woman’s emotional growth from