It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
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There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.M. F. K. Fisher
In 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.
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When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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People ask me Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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