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"Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness." (p.40)

"A shout of rejoicing for the fish who wears his eyeballs at the ends of long stalks, and for the jubilant laughter of the God who holds him in life with a daily bravo at the bravura of his being!"
"3 things there are which the earth cannot bear, yea, 4 which are to be feared as the shadow of death: A painter who will not look, a sculptor with a dead thumb, a musician with a tin ear, and a cook with a wooden palate."

Hoping to finish this on my eleven hour flight. We’ll see how I do!

Also, I don’t think I’ll ever find a book like this one again. This is a treasure to be revisited, to be reminded that such a balance between what is seen as secular and sacred can actually exist!

From meat, to metaphysics, to knives, Capon somehow keeps my attention no matter the subject! He’s the only author I can think of that I’d be truly curious to read his grocery list—his wit and passion for cooking and food would likely shine through even in something so simple!

Enthralling. I’m loving every second of this odd and wonderful cookbook.

I will never look at an onion the same way again.

"God LIKES onions, therefore they are. The fit, colors, smell, tensions, tastes, textures, lines, shapes are a response, not to some forgotten decree that there may as well be onions as turnips, but to His present delight - His intimate and immediate joy in all you've seen, and in the thousand other wonders you don't even suspect."

He mentions E. Powers Biggs in an illustration about gravy - I’d never heard that name and was surprised when I looked it up. Listen to some videos. You will enjoy.

This should end any further argument. Robert capon says “ wash your good knives by hand”