M. F. K. Fisher Quotes


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.


Citations

Fisher, M. F. K. The Gastronomical Me. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943, p. ix.

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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."