“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to food other than render it delectable. Their distinction is grounded, not in sordid dietetic tricks, but in a choice between honest frugality or generous expense. Both aim only at excellence; accordingly, neither is suitable for dieting. Should a… — 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
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
“Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a housewife. Butter and cream, for example. What chicken is there - what veal, what pork - indeed, what shrimp, scallops, oysters, or clams, that will not come to a glorious end if, five minutes before they leave the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
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
“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 of a $59.00 fare to Orlando only to find, when you try to buy a ticket, that the six seats per flight at that price are all taken and that the trip will now cost you… — 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 Image
“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but… — 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 years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more… — 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 than render it delectable. Their distinction is grounded, not in sordid dietetic tricks, but in a choice between honest frugality or generous expense. Both aim only at excellence; accordingly, neither is suitable for dieting. Should a… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
