A biography for Jessica Fechtorhasn’t been written yet.
“Food—like art, like music— brings people together, it’s true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, “You have to taste this.” We say, “Please, take a bite.”
“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”
“When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.”
“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”