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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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.M. F. K. Fisher
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.
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For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .
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Salad is roughage and a French idea.
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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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