Sarah Abbey’s Reviews > The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection > Status Update

"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."

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."

This book is already delightful.

"There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace."

"I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

"Anything is better than water in a stew."