Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.
M. F. K. FisherWhen I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
M. F. K. FisherThere is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.
M. F. K. FisherSharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.
M. F. K. Fisher