M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Most popular M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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.
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.
The cold truth is that family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him.
