“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.” – M.F.K. Fisher
“Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things”. -T. S. Eliot
“I’m trying to strike a balance, use all the colors I have, and not just have my interpretation of me be what the loudest or the last voice says”. – Georgia O’Keefe
“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”. –Leonard Cohen
“A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.” – Clifton Fadiman
“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.” -M.F.K. Fischer
“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” – John Gunther
“Happiness and pleasure involve depending on others”. – Carlo Petrini
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.” – M.F.K. Fischer
“Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before you do something else. Dinner is the evening.” – Art Buchwald
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.” ― M.F.K. Fisher
“An empty belly is the best cook.”- Estonian Proverb
“. . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.” – M.F.K. Fischer
