Quote of the week
May 16, 2009
One of the reasons I love this blog is that you folks keep leading me to new discoveries I would never have found otherwise – like Hughesy’s and the Empress’s references to MFK Fisher, author of How to Cook a Wolf and Consider the Oyster, both of which I’m now on the hunt for.
Anyway, a little zip around the net looking for Ms Fisher revealed this lovely remark of hers, after the deaths of her beloved brother and husband within a few months of one another. As I’m reading a lot of books about bereavement at the moment for the Sydney Writers’ Festival next week, this quote struck me with particular force.
“One has to live, you know. You can’t just die from grief or anything. You don’t die. You might as well eat well, have a good glass of wine, a good tomato.”
– MFK Fisher
How to shuck an oyster 
Great tomatos, oh yes. The best tom I have ever eaten was a brandywine grown in the front yard. It weighed a nice little 440g and I cut it thick and had it on bread like a steak sandwich.