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

- M. F. K. Fisher

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…

- M. F. K. Fisher

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

- M. F. K. Fisher

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

- M. F. K. Fisher

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…

- M. F. K. Fisher

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

- M. F. K. Fisher

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.

- M. F. K. Fisher

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

- M. F. K. Fisher

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