"At the root of many a woman's failure……" — Robert Farrar Capon
"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."
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46 Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon
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Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at…
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If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be,…
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Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we…
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With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call…
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A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.
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Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.
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Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or…
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However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace
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Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners
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You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can…
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A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.
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The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of…
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I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point…
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I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food,…
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