M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

M. F. K. Fisher

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• In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • America
  • Food
  • Cooking