If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“We live in an age in which saving is subterfuge for spending. No doubt you sincerely believe that there is margarine in… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer. It is not one of those airline supersavers in which you read… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“Because the creative Word is the eternal contemporary of every moment of the world's existence, the kingdom is catholic in time as well as… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to food other… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
