Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

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.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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.

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.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.