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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."
Explore more quotes by M. F. K. Fisher
"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."
"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."
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