M. F. K. Fisher

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

— M. F. K. Fisher

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

— M. F. K. Fisher

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of…

— M. F. K. Fisher

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

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

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more…

— M. F. K. Fisher

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

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach…

— M. F. K. Fisher

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined…

— M. F. K. Fisher