“If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.”

~ MFK Fisher

“Often I thank him for having, no matter how accidently, taught me to realize the almost vascular connection between love and lobster pate, between eating and romance.”

~ MFK Fisher, Alphabet for Gourmets, “R is for Romantic”

(Food Writer of 27+ books & Founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library)