109 Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

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.

First we eat, then we do everything else.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in 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. So it happens that 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… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

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

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.