Gain Access The Supper Of The Lamb: A Culinary Reflection Narrated By Robert Farrar Capon In Manuscript

not a cook, and I dont enjoy it when I have to do it, Im more willing to go without a meal than spend time on cooking one, So I have no business reading a book about cooking, But since this book is about more than that, I figure I havent broken any laws by reading it.

Since Im usually such a stickler for reading every word or it doesnt count, I must admit I did not read theor so pages of recipes at the end of the book.
If I were a cook, I would buy it for the recipes, because this guy sure knows what hes doing.

This collection of essays that all tie into a recipe called Lamb for Eight Persons Four Times was written by an Episcopalian priest in the late sixties.
So besides getting his thoughts on food and the way we approach cooking, eating, and life in general, I felt like I got a peek into a different culture from a different time.

His essays were thoughtful, wellwritten, and often quite funny, There were two parts that made me laugh the most: when he cursed margarine to outer darkness in one chapter, and in the last chapter “The Heart that Burns,” where he sang the praises of baking soda as a heartburn remedy to the extent that he presented an imaginary reward to it.

This is one I wish Id been reading on my kindle so I could highlight all the goodness.

Highly recommended, whether or not you love cooking, This quirky little book a much reread one in our house, I should add is a reflection not only on food and eating, but on life, God and everything in between.
Father Capon's writing is witty and full of verve, starting with his address to an onion and ending on the subject of heartburn the lesser and greater.
In between, he discusses such things as tin fiddles useless, but well marketed substitutes for useful tools, a lot of culinary technique, dieting and the joys of almost a well organized dinner party as opposed to the more social isolating cocktail party preach it Father Capon!.


What I like about this book is its sheer joy, Father Capon simply finds God wherever he looks in his cooking and I find that attitude to cooking attractive.
Instead of being merely about consuming enough nourishment, Father Capon helps us to see world in which almost everything we touch refelcts the goodness of God and his Creation.
Ultimately, we get recipes, but, more important, we see a way of looking at the world which brings joy to even everyday meals and everyday life.
Every once in awhile I read a book that I know has altered me in some way, and not necessarily for the better or for the worse.
This is one of those books,

It's hard to even know where to start with this book, I supposed you start by saying it is a cookbook, a life altering cook book, Yet this is not the typical utilitarian cookbook that gives you a couple hundred choices as to what to have for dinner tomorrow, instead it gets to the very heart of cooking.
Yet it goes beyond the heart of cooking, the very wonder existence, After reading this book I will never be able to cut an onion without a sense of wonder, I will see it as a crime against humanity if someone tries to clean my well seasoned pizza stone with soap, and I will use wooden cooking utensils whenever possible just because.


This book makes you want to eat big and fast hard, try new things, not only in your cooking.
It was just a good book, The book does have a few shortcomings, there are times when my patience ran a little

thin with the author, but all in all this was a really fun book.


I have only read a few books that have done what this book does, The author paints ordinary things in such way that causes the extraordinary things of life to take a back seat.


I don't recommend this to everyone, but if you are a Christian like both cooking and philosophy you would be doing yourself a favor to read this book.
Within seven pages of the beginning, this book had hit my alltime favorites list, Anyone who has ever eaten food, or plans to eat food in the future, must read this book buoyant, joyful, gritty, delicious, hilarious, and reverent, it richly deserves every accolade.
Poignant, witty, and delightful. This is my third or fourth time through and each time is lovely, I learn more about food and more about man and glimpse the transcendent in the process, This book is simply the best theology of cooking and food book I have ever come across, It is a joy to read and gives inspiration to my cooking, I learned quite a lot about cooking and eating well, No, not “healthy” as our culture defines healthy but eating like a human in a world full of Gods goodness.
Most importantly, I learned to taste, Wine is delightful for what it is, itself, Bread is a gift to strengthen mans heart, Enjoy these gifts for what they are themselves, Wonder over the lavishness of it all,

Robert Farrar Capon is brilliant in this book, No other author writes with such a distinct voice, I know, thats bold. Hes comedic, instructive, passionate and will burst into poetry in the middle of a page, I will leave you with this quote from the final chapter:

“Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry, or cooking Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course but out of more than that, too.
Half of earths gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become, . . We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
” LOVE. Read immediately.

From Chapter. "Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers, why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry, or cooking Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course but out of more than that, too.
Half of earths gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become, For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itselfand it is our glory to see it so and thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last.
We were given appetittes, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
” Quite possibly my new favorite book, Why did I not read this until now Many friends recommended this to me, so I expected a good read.
I expected it to make me hungry, I did not expect to be startled and astonished by Capons insight into the relationship between earthly dining and the wedding feast in the New Jerusalem.
I did not expect a book on what it means to be fully human and seeing our fellow men as such.
And I certainly did not expect to be moved to tears in nearly every chapter,

If you have ever cooked anything, eaten anything, or believe that Man is created in Gods image and is not merely another beast of the earth, read this book.


Second read: its still as good as the first time maybe even better, Solidly in the ranks of my favorite books and will likely be a yearly reread around Christmas, I still have yet to actually prepare any of the recipes, Hopefullycan be my year of the supper of the lamb,

Third read: even better than the first and second, I have now made Capons puff paste twice, and both times the results were perfection, I think I may commit to preparing all the recipes in this book in,
“Half of earths gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become, For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of herself and it is our glory to see it so and thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last.
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
” Edible words that taste great! An incredibly delightful book,
The word I keep calling it is Charming,
Absolutely delightfully charming!
The philosophy! The techniques!
The recipes of which Ive tried one, so far, and it is fantastic!
The theologising!
Not to mention, the humor!
Oh my, I loved it.

Im proud to say that I finally ordered us our own copy BEFORE I finished reading it, today.

I know no other book like it, It's actually impossible to say how much I love this book, It is everything: heart, wit, poetry, faith, food, I want to be this book when I grow up,

"Half of the earths gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become, For all it's rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here it is an outlandish place, a foreign home.
. . We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
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