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It seems to me that 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.

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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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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.

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Husband, Food, Men

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.748, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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Oysters, Years, Eggs

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.160, 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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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 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.

M. F. K. Fisher

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.

M. F. K. Fisher

War, Food, Communication

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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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Family, Food, Memorable

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

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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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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 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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... 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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Past, Men, Thinking

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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When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

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Hate, Men, Years

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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War, Men, Thinking

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

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Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

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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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... 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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Born: July 3, 1908
Died: June 22, 1992
Occupation: Writer
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