M. F. K. Fisher - How to cook a wolf (1942)

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

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When the wolf is at the door one should invite him in and have him for dinner.

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Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

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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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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.

M. F. K. Fisher

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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