Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
—M. F. K. Fisher
Topics: Sharing, Food, Eating
Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
—M. F. K. Fisher
Topics: Eating
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it … and it is all one.
—M. F. K. Fisher
Topics: Food
When shall we live if not now?
—M. F. K. Fisher
Topics: The Present
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
—M. F. K. Fisher
Topics: Food
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.
—M. F. K. Fisher
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