It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one…It is soothing and enough. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer years ago… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share
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