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.
"Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher" was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More M. F. K. Fisher on Wikipedia.. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
. . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision.
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.
. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .
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