There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the deeper connection people share during communal meals, beyond just physical presence.
M. F. K. Fisher highlights that sharing food and drink, particularly in a communal setting, creates a bond that transcends mere physical interaction. It suggests that the act of breaking bread and sharing wine nurtures relationships, fosters emotional connections, and allows for a spiritual communion that enriches the human experience.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech at a wedding to emphasize the importance of shared meals in relationships.
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...
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.
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.
A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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