M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . . - M. F. K. Fisher

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. - M. F. K. Fisher

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. - M. F. K. Fisher

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. - M. F. K. Fisher

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. - M. F. K. Fisher

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

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. - M. F. K. Fisher

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