"When asked why she chose to write about food rather than "the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do," M.F.K. replied:"The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for good and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the other. So it happens that when I write about hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger of it...and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied...and it is all one.""