People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking?
Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security and
about love, the way others do?...The easiest answer is to say that,
like most other humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that.
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security
and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot
straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that
when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the
hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for
it... and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger
satisfied... and it is all one.... There is a communion of more
than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
-- M.F.K. Fisher. The Gastronomical Me