109 Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

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.

One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best....

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

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.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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.