“ I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a st… M.F.K. Fisher
“ It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, w… M.F.K. Fisher
“ Our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body. M.F.K. Fisher
“ I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual gl… M.F.K. Fisher
“ When you think you can stand no more of the wolf's snuffing under the door and keening softly on cold nights, throw discretion into the laundry bag, put candles on the table, and for your own good if… M.F.K. Fisher
“ You can still live with grace and wisdom thanks partly to the many people who write about how to do it and perhaps talk overmuch about riboflavin and economy, and partly to your own innate sense of wh… M.F.K. Fisher
“ ...it was one of the best meals we ever ate.Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least; but the fact that we remember it with such queer clarity must mean that it had othe… M.F.K. Fisher
“ Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sur… M.F.K. Fisher
“ Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over to this land and made the Big Money. Perhaps, even, we will remember how to make good bread… M.F.K. Fisher
“ Like most humans, I am hungry...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 th… M.F.K. Fisher
“ You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive! M.F.K. Fisher
“ I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. M.F.K. Fisher
“ The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a d… M.F.K. Fisher
“ ...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news. M.F.K. Fisher
“ I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and… M.F.K. Fisher
“ I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led. M.F.K. Fisher
