{"author":"M.F.K. Fisher","author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["eating","food","peace","potatoes","war"],"id":1494,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["art","culture","society"],"id":39365,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another...The man alone or the woman, to sound new notes in the mysterious music of parenthood and childhood.)That night I not only saw my Father for the first time as a person. I saw the golden hills and the live oaks as clearly as I have ever seen them since; and I saw the dimples in my little sister's fat hands in a way that still moves me because of that first time; and I saw food as something beautiful to be shared with people instead of as a thrice-daily necessity.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["food","france","mexico"],"id":59635,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever increasing enjoyment. And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly of ourselves. Then Fate, even tangled as it is with cold wars as well as hot, cannot harm us.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["cooking","growth","ood","self-improvement"],"id":62042,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"First we eat, then we do everything else.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["food","life"],"id":68554,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["children","motherhood"],"id":85639,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["food","hungers","spirits"],"id":100411,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["egg","food"],"id":102361,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["food"],"id":103568,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["food","writing"],"id":123051,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}