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«Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.»
«When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.»
«Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.»
«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
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«. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
«. . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
«. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
«Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .»
Author: 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.»
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