“The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What we are up to here is not the hasty shaking loose of a culinary result, but a patient rumination on cooking itself. There are more important things to do than hurry.” PatienceCookingSlow Food Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.” GivingFoodTasteHundredRaisesCookingBreadCulinaryThis DaySoupFillingSauceSpoonsPastaStewGravyRaise Up Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.” NeedsMindMadeSoulForeverFoodCookingFishesMeatMealsCulinaryRemedyCheeseSovereignSoupDessertSaladLargesseStinginess Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.” WantWorryFoodTasteCookingEnthusiasmCooksLoudCulinaryModesty Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“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 earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.” GivingEarthLyingCoursesSimpleCitiesHalfCreationPaintingLoversGoodnessCookingDelightChemistryResidentsLovers And Friends Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.” WorldHumansMeanLongFactsHomeHandsReligionPassionResponsibilityGraceCookingSalvationScaredWitFormulasDevotedRecipesDrowningHuman Hands Author:Robert Farrar Capon
