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M. F. K. Fisher

3 July 1908-22 June 1992

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Bread baking is a homely ceremony, and no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel will leave one emptier of bad thoughts than it.

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Bread baking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony, leaving one filled with one of the world's sweetest smells.

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Bread baking is productive of a smell which, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.

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Brioche is a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground.

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Cheese is a food that both sophisticated and simple humans have always loved.

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Cheese is wine's ageless companion, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

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Dining is about community. There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

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Dinner is, when taken with one's family, more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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The Family is a group of people whose dinners together are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.