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M. F. K. Fisher, an American renowned food writer, was born on July 3, 1908, and passed away on June 22, 1992. Her works are known for their deep exploration of the relationship between food and human emotions, culture, and society.

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Famous M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

“Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.”

Wells Ego Cooking Customers Cooks

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

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

Real Food Eating Cooking Caution Eating Food Gourmet Gourmet Food

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“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.”

Feels Poor Food Cooking Ignorant Treated Kitchen Potatoes

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“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.”

Sea Childhood Tradition Cooking Storm Aesthetics

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“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. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”

Thinking Needs Writing Reality Seems Happens Three Security Food Fine And Love Cooking Hunger Satisfied Culinary Warmth Richness Basic Needs Entwined Hunger For Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“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!”

Feels May Facts Too Much Food Cooking Snow Culinary Feathers Pastries

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”

Writing Wells Cooking Cooks Desks Stoves

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”

America Culture Nations Food Taste Blind Cooking Ignorant Urges Culinary Flavour

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

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

Family Food Cooking Dinner Nervous Memorable Culinary Resentment Ennui Ordeals Indigestion Family Dinner Jitters

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.”

Needs Real Self Given Food Cooking Filled Culinary Caution Gourmet Gourmet Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.”

Persons Secret Food Cooking Likes Culinary

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“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.”

Doe Enough Facts Age Night Hours Food Thousand Eating Hundred Twenties Cooking Mere Eight Upset Contemplation Fifty Culinary Steady Day And Night Chewing Swallowing

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.”

Men Art Three Food Cooking Proof Culinary Goods Delightful Transforming Ingenuity Rubber Cookbook Heating

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.”

Humans Simple Food Cooking Culinary Cheese Sophisticated

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“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.”

Thinking Life Needs Seems Three Security And Love Cooking Basic Needs Entwined Hunger For Food

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

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

People Hurt Food Moon Cooking Wine Drinking Noble Culinary Companion Good People Cheese Venture Ache June Aspirin Best Wine Ageless Wine And Love Wine And Cheese

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

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

Love Should Humans Human Beings Food Inspire Health Cooking Intimate Culinary Chef Food Love Funny Food Comfort Food Fresh Food I Love Food Sharing Food

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

About the Author

Born: July 3, 1908
Died: June 22, 1992
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 108

Books & Sources

The Art of EatingRelated source material

Consider the OysterRelated source material

Long Ago In France: The Years In DijonRelated source material

Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. FisherRelated source material

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