I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix. M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher More Quotes From M. F. K. Fisher Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat. M. F. K. Fisher cooking secret food It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly. M. F. K. Fisher food men believe 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 cutting food men Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat. M. F. K. Fisher survival eating should Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful. M. F. K. Fisher food men art I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. M. F. K. Fisher bottles wine thinking In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces. M. F. K. Fisher pieces lying years 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. M. F. K. Fisher yoga meditation exercise It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises. M. F. K. Fisher weed numbers happiness There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment. M. F. K. Fisher kitchen becoming culture Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body. M. F. K. Fisher body spirit doe 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 meals soup thinking 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 dining-alone food thinking Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. M. F. K. Fisher broken-heart eggs food ...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.) M. F. K. Fisher passion food sex It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know. M. F. K. Fisher growing-up blessed wise There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love. M. F. K. Fisher communication food war 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 Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love. M. F. K. Fisher cooking simple food Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit. M. F. K. Fisher majesty drunk wine
