M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.

Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.

Food is a huge source of comfort for me.

Grits really are food for the soul.

My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.

When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.

I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that's my comfort food.

Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

Ice cream is my comfort food.

When you're eating a bowl of pho, you're eating everything you need.

I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.

At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.