"When asked why she had devoted herself to writing about food and drink instead of weightier subjects, such as serious world issues or even love, [M. F. K.] Fisher replied, ‘The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.'"
Clifton Fadiman & André Bernard, eds., Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (1st rev. ed.) (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2000), p. 204.
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