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... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

M. F. K. Fisher's Popular Quotes

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished m…

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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

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The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

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Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly thro…

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

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No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

- M. F. K. Fisher