M.F.K. Fisher quotes

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... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubio ...
Central heating, French rubber goods, and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art ...
Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pas ...
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.
...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better t ...
The aging process is a part of most of our lives, and it remains one we try to ignore until it seems to pounce upon us. We evade a ...
I have formed a strong theory that there is no such thing as "turning into" a Nasty Old Man or an Old Witch. I believe that such p ...
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the t ...
Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, toget ...
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
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