M. F. K. Fisher Quotes


Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.


Citations

Fisher, M. F. K. Serve It Forth. Harper & Brothers, 1937, p. 57.

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  • Born: July 3, 1908
  • Died: June 22, 1992
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."