“I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.” WayFourMy WayScreamPrimalYellingJunkie Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .” IfsWayMy OwnAddictionIllnessSnowDestructiveAddictGlueSniffing Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“... 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
“This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.” WayShouldMadeFoodSoupOystersStew Book:Consider the Oyster Source: Consider the Oyster
“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...” ThinkingKnowsMenWayWholePastFacesRoomsColdBirdCrisisSatGrayFrozenChillDrowningBeggarWhipsNamelessFilth Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.” WayBelieveWarPainFacesI BelievePovertySkillsCapableDignityEnjoymentDelicacy Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.” PeopleWayWritingHumansAsksAnswersStruggleSecurityEatingDrinkingHungryAsk MeFood And EatingEating And Drinking Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
