Food Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

11 Food quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

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Robert Farrar Capon often weaves theology with everyday life, and his reflections on food are no exception. These eleven thoughtful lines explore the spiritual side of eating.

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At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for…

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“prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)”

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If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

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I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want…

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It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need…

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“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate…

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“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…

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“On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into…

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“Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a…

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“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to…

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“We live in an age in which saving is subterfuge for spending. No doubt you sincerely believe that there is margarine in…

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Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

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Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same…

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Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

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A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

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“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by…

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The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your…

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“We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go…

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The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in…

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