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... 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,

... 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.

M. F. K. Fisher
Prayer, Grief, Tired

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

M. F. K. Fisher
Travel, Sight, Doe
Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

M. F. K. Fisher
Fun, Language, Reassuring

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

I like old people when they have aged well.

M. F. K. Fisher
People, Old People, Wells

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

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

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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