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Also Known As Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
Born July 3, 1908 • Michigan
Died June 22, 1992 (aged 83) • California
Notable Works “The Physiology of Taste, or Meditation on Transcendent Gastronomy, a Work Theoretical, Historical, and Programmed”
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