M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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

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  Food, Smell, Water

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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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• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Struggle, Drinking, Writing

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, 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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• 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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  Art, Years, Preparation

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

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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 live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Carpe Diem, Engraved

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• France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  France, Nations

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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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• 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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• Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Clean, Ends

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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.

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  Mean, Tunes, Needs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, 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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• 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 of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

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  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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