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M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.”

51. “I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.”

53. “Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet...”

54. “A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet...”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.”

55. “In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.”

57. “France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”

58. “Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.”

59. “Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they’ve lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat – and drink! – with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.”

60. “Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they’ve lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat – and drink! – with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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 not the pleasure of an admiring audience make one or another of the recipes in this chapter. And buy yourself a bottle of wine, or make a few cocktails, or have a long open-hearted discussion of cheeses with the man on the corner who is an alien but still loyal if bewildered.”

61. “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 not the pleasure of an admiring audience make one or another of the recipes in this chapter. And buy yourself a bottle of wine, or make a few cocktails, or have a long open-hearted discussion of cheeses with the man on the corner who is an alien but still loyal if bewildered.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.”

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

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I like old people when they have aged well.”

63. “I like old people when they have aged well.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.”

64. “There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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 glance at me.”

65. “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 glance at me.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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.”

66. “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

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.”

67. “I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.”

68. “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, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.”

69. “Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I have spent my life in a painstaking effort to tell about things as they are to me, so that they will not sound like autobiography but simply like notes, like factual reports.”

72. “I have spent my life in a painstaking effort to tell about things as they are to me, so that they will not sound like autobiography but simply like notes, like factual reports.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.”

73. “Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever increasing enjoyment. And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly of ourselves. Then Fate, even tangled as it is with cold wars as well as hot, cannot harm us.”

74. “I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever increasing enjoyment. And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly of ourselves. Then Fate, even tangled as it is with cold wars as well as hot, cannot harm us.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “I kept wishing with real regret that I were capable of living in such continued simplicity. But I am not. Sometimes I honestly want to live in a plain room with a narrow bed, a chair, a table. But then I would need a bookcase. I would see a poster I must put on the wall. I would pick up a shell here, a bowl or vase there, another poster, enough books for two bookcases, a soft rug someone might give me – and where would the first plainness be? I cannot fight too hard against it, but I regret it.”

75. “I kept wishing with real regret that I were capable of living in such continued simplicity. But I am not. Sometimes I honestly want to live in a plain room with a narrow bed, a chair, a table. But then I would need a bookcase. I would see a poster I must put on the wall. I would pick up a shell here, a bowl or vase there, another poster, enough books for two bookcases, a soft rug someone might give me – and where would the first plainness be? I cannot fight too hard against it, but I regret it.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.”

76. “There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “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 what you must do with the resources you have, to keep the wolf from snuffing to hungrily through the keyhole.”

77. “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 what you must do with the resources you have, to keep the wolf from snuffing to hungrily through the keyhole.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder...”

78. “As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder...”

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M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.”

79. “Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

M.F.K. Fisher Quote: “The stove, the bins, the cupboards, I had learned forever, make an inviolable throne room. From them I ruled; temporarily I controlled. I felt powerful, and I loved that feeling.”

80. “The stove, the bins, the cupboards, I had learned forever, make an inviolable throne room. From them I ruled; temporarily I controlled. I felt powerful, and I loved that feeling.”

— M.F.K. Fisher

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