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
... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans. — 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
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
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans… — 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 was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it,… — 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 Image
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 Image
gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love. — 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 an uncanny… — 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
... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans. — 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 years ago… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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