All M.F.K. Fisher Quotes
- A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature. Any
- For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough. Baked
- In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind. America
- There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we… Agree
- Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of… Arms
- Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. Accompanied
- There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask… Answer
- . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people,… Age
- Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even… Ask
- I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of… Attack
- Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. Isms
- It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a… Certain
- If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of… Conviviality
- Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of… Both
- A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as… Caution
- Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat. Almost Every
- Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights… Age
- It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it Any
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to… Ability
- Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps… Amazing
- Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love. Been
- An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Dreadful
- A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer. Aperitif
- I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty… All
- It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… Basic