M. F. K. Fisher Quotes - Page 5

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• A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Groups, Gathering, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.641, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Fun, Language, Reassuring

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• It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Christmas, Taken, People

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• It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Differences, People, Innocence

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake crumb might cause. Passover dishes are probably the most interesting of any in the Jewish cuisine because of the lack of leaven and the resulting challenge to fine cooks.... Everything is doubly rich, as if to compensate for the lack of leaven... [W]oes are forgotten in the pleasures of the table, for if the Mosaic laws are rightly followed, no man need fear true poison in his belly, but only the results of his own gluttony.

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  Men, Law, Cake

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• One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Taught Us, Hot

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Food, Night, Eight

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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