"Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or……" — M.F.K. Fisher
"Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts."
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M.F.K. Fisher
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68 Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher has 68 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or…
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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.…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to,…
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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…
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More Abandon Quotes
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one of 715 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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