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One Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
- For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
- . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one…
- I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my…
- Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with…
- I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died…
- When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it…
- Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
- I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma to France and back…
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