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M. F. K. Fisher Quotes about Cooking

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Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

M. F. K. Fisher
Food, Cooking, Secret
Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

M. F. K. Fisher
Writing, Cooking, Desks

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

M. F. K. Fisher
Real, Food, Cooking
Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

M. F. K. Fisher
Food, Simple, Cooking
Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

M. F. K. Fisher
Life, Thinking, Cooking
Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

M. F. K. Fisher
Ego, Cooking, Cooks

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.

M. F. K. Fisher
Sea, Childhood, Cooking

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!

M. F. K. Fisher
Food, Snow, Cooking

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.

M. F. K. Fisher
Food, America, Cooking
1976 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.

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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