M. F. K. Fisher Cooking Quotations

First we eat, then we do everything else.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ...

a potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen ...

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet ...

cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ...