MFK Fisher

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It is perhaps easier to slide from the sublime to the ridiculous gastronomically than any other way

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As for butter and other shortenings, I have always felt that I should prefer too little of the best to plenty of the inferior kind.

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The table should be ample, and above all solid, with no squeaks and shiverings.

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... and had almost nothing in common with the unctuous scarlet liquid which ketchup is to every good Yankee.

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...and I am fairly certain that what d'Albignac used in London was flavored with mushrooms or walnuts or even elderberries or oysters...

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It, and ketchup, and catsup, probably come from the Chinese kê-tsiap, meaning a briny fish sauce...

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Brillat-Savarin uses the word calchup, an unusual one in French.

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I too dine late by preference, and I too like my room clear and beautiful, and above all, my guests very few and even more selected.

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What is more tedious for us than an early supper?

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I cannot swallow a whole egg in front of anyone in the world, no matter how much I want it. Or so I think.

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Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk.

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... there is no culinary challenge quite as demanding as salt-free food in the modern diet.

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There are times when helpful hints about turning off the gas when not in use are foolish, because the gas has been turned off...

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There is an inevitable ritual about serving and eating spaghetti.

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Breadmaking, I have found, is a very personal thing, and what one cool does another cannot or will not do because it does not feel right.

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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.

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Men have enjoyed eating oysters since they were not much more than monkeys, according to the kitchen middens they have left behind them.

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Once at least in the life of every human, whether he be brute or trembling daffodil, comes a moment of complete gastronomic satisfaction.

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Almost all people are born unconsious to the nuances of flavour. Many die so.