109 Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

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.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

...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.)

... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...

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.

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.