M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Grace, Meals, Gusto

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Reality

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Love, Food, Health

  1949 An Alphabet for Gourmets,'A Is for Dining Alone'.

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• When shall we live if not now?

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Worry, Anxiety, Ifs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The smell of good bread baking,
  like the sound of lightly flowing water,
  is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Smell, Water

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Food

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• No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Humble, Exercise

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• 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Fleeting, Good Food, Perfume

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Meals, Eating, Joyful

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Carpe Diem, Engraved

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• 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Years, Preparation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Mean, Tunes, Needs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Two, Three, Enough

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• gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Eating

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.713, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Food, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Secret

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Hunger

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• 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 and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Pain, War, Believe

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Cooking, Desks

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• It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Meals, Soup

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• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cutting, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  True Friend, Beer, Two

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Simple, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Dining Alone

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