The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
M. F. K. FisherIn 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. FisherMost bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
M. F. K. Fisher... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
M. F. K. Fisher