“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers.… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another...the man alone or the woman, to sound new notes in the mysterious music of parenthood and childhood.) That night I not only saw my Father for the first… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over to this land and made the Big Money. Perhaps, even, we will remember how to make good bread again. It does not cost much. It is pleasant: one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too,… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share
“...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...it was one of the best meals we ever ate. Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least;… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands,… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
