It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté. — 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
...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
There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die… — 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
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
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are… — 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 must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it… — 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
. . . 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
... 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
