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 the others do? . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.
Source: The Gastronomical Me, Foreword, 1943.
-- M F K Fisher, (Jul 3 1908-1992), US culinary expert, author; She was best known for her writings on basic human needs, especially food: The Art of Eating, 1954.