"Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts."

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Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

M. F. K. Fisher

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“To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.”
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“When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.”
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
“Youâ€™re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemyâ€™s also having a hard timeâ€”the only question is who breaks down first.”
“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.”
“If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.”

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