“... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.” WayWantNeedsSoulPrayerGriefCryEatingTiredCraveTangibleWhipsNourishmentSteak 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.” ThinkingNeedsWritingRealitySeemsHappensThreeSecurityFoodFineAnd LoveCookingHungerSatisfiedCulinaryWarmthRichnessBasic NeedsEntwinedHunger For Food Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.” MenNeedsHas BeensNaturalPleasurePoorRichCuttingFoodDenyHungryRealizationFullnessRich Or PoorCutting Off Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.” NeedsFeelsMeanForgetCommonHeardMysteryRadioSatisfactionBreadTunesSaltBowlsCasualPrimal 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.” NeedsRealSelfGivenFoodCookingFilledCulinaryCautionGourmetGourmet Food 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.” ThinkingLifeNeedsSeemsThreeSecurityAnd LoveCookingBasic NeedsEntwinedHunger For Food Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“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.” IfsMenNeedsMightLawHouseCausesChallengesPleasureInterestingResultsRichDangerFineTablesForgottenCooksPoisonCakeDishesBellyMost InterestingCuisineGluttonyCrumbsMosaics Author:M. F. K. Fisher
