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M.F.K. Fisher has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…
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I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward,…
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Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line…
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About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and…
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the…
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One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and…
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the…
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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting…
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