M. F. K. Fisher — American Writer born on July 03, 1908, died on June 22, 1992

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.".. (wikipedia)

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.