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Title: The Supper of the Lamb : A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon, Deborah Madison ISBN: 0-375-76056-3 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ferial Cooking!
Comment: Lets face it...all of us who cook (unless we are filthy rich) do a lot of work with leftovers (Ferial cooking). Yet most folks buy cookbooks that give us these grand, one time and you're done (Festal cooking) recipes. This is not what you get from Robert Capon's "The Supper of the Lamb." This book is all about Ferial cooking--and proud of it.
Capon is a true wild man. He has become one of my favorite authors (His book Between Noon and Three is one of my top ten). "The Supper of the Lamb" is earlier, yet vintage Capon.
The book is indeed a cookbook. It is also so much more. What the reader will find here, besides the recipes, are reflections on life and reality. The theme of Ferial cooking is transferred to a kind of manifesto on Ferial living. Capon sees food, and life as well, through a lens of wonder.
Capon's book is really a recipe for living life more fully. While his recipes for food are great, it is this "larger" recipe that holds the greatest appeal for me.
I recommend "The Supper of the Lamb" to you with all my heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: Profound and hilarious
Comment: Father Capon has written one of the most absurd "cookbooks" anyone has ever seen. It purports to be about serving eight people four meals from a (large) leg of lamb. His wanderings in tortured philosophical byeways and his admonitions about avoiding water in soups ("soup waterer!") will make you reach for the wine bottle instead. He is clearly a portly fellow who enjoys hearty food, not stinting on the butter, but determined to find the best in life (or at least the best food in life). I have re-read the book several times, and always come away with the sense of awe at a man so dedicated to his stomach and to avoiding the traps of modern "inventions" in cookware and lifestyles. Buy it: you'll not regret the time you spend reading it, admiring it, and chuckling aloud every few pages. There are recipes occasionally in the first two thirds of the book, all dealing with those 8 times 4 servings, but also a wonderful collection of special recipes toward the end. Do read it: it may just change your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Meditations on Food
Comment: Food writing is a difficult task. It's much easier to jot down a few (or many) recipes that describe the feelings, emotion and psychology of the food experience. One advantage that food writing has over, say car writing or sports writing, is the multitude of functionality. One can raise, prepare, buy, eat and savor food. It is used for romance, for celebration, for friendship, bereavement or religious fulfillment. In fact, to some it is almost a religious experience.
This is especially true of the author, Robert Capon, a priest in the Episcopal church. He can be deep, funny, poignant or edifying. These various essays touch on many subjects, all of them related one way or another to food. His comments like, "God may be simple but simplicity makes a bad god." are par for the course.
His strong likes (natural food, discipline, earnest preparation and freinds) and dislikes (fancy stoves, kitchen gadgets, easy recipes, strong cologne, arriving late) are fully detailed. A compendium of recipes follow the essays.
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Title: The Passionate Epicure : La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet by MARCEL ROUFF ISBN: 0375760806 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: High Bonnet : A Novel of Epicurean Adventures by Anthony Bourdain, Idwal Jones ISBN: 0375757562 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel Chamberlain, Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0375756647 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Genesis: The Movie by Robert Farrar Capon ISBN: 080286094X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Katish : Our Russian Cook by Marion Cunningham, Henry Stahlhut, Wanda Frolov ISBN: 0375757619 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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