M.F. K. Fisher

The problem with most food writing is that it is too much about ingredients and not enough about appetite.

Her books are full of private cravings.

Those of us who love her above all other food writers must be grateful that she ignored her friend’s advice. There is a liberating generosity to the way she exposes those private appetites that most of us struggle to hide. No one was ever so confident in her own hungers or so determined in her quest to satisfy them.