M. F. K. Fisher Quotes - Page 3

• Me parece que nuestras tres necesidades básicas, de alimento, seguridad y amor, están tan mezcladas, entremezcladas y entrelazadas que no podemos pensar directamente en una sin las otras.

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  Life, Thinking, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

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  Sex, Pretty Woman, Meals

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• ...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

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  Littles, Detachment

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.492, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

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  Ego, Cooking, Cooks

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• Salad is roughage and a French idea.

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  Ideas, Salad

  M.F.K. Fisher (2011). “With Bold Knife And Fork”, p.89, Random House

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• It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.

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  Wise, Growing Up, Blessed

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.

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  Believe, Food, Men

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.648, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

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  Pain, Food, Tired

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

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  Sea, Childhood, Cooking

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• 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.

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  War, Food, Communication

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• La cerveza es un aperitivo agradable y un buen acompañante para un whisky corto y rápido, así como para una buena cena.

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  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

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  Sweet, Time, People

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• 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 sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

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  Heart, Wine, Self

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• ... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

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  Thinking, Grieving, Forever

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• The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

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  Stress, Passion, Oysters

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

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  Vegetables, Potatoes, Enough

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• 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 the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

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  Pasado, Hombres, Pensamiento

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

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  Life, Oysters, Shapes

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

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  Food, Snow, Cooking

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• 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.

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  Guerra, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Talleyrand decía que dos cosas son esenciales en la vida: dar buenas cenas y mantener buenas relaciones con las mujeres. Con el paso de los años y el enfriamiento de los fuegos, puede dejar de ser importante mantenerse siempre en buenos términos con las mujeres o con los compañeros, pero una apreciación amplia y sensible de los buenos sabores puede seguir con nosotros, para calentarnos el corazón.

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  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  Sex, Home, Two

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• En Estados Unidos comemos, colectivamente, con una desganada necesidad de que la comida nos llene. Ignoramos el sabor. Somos una nación ciega al sabor.

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  Food, America, Cooking

  1976 The Art of Eating.

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• ... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

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  Shameless, Carelessness

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• I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

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  Junkie

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