M. F. K. Fisher - Eat Quotes

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France eats more consciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

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There can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

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Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

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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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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

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All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

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Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

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