Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1058437 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
?One of the funniest, wisest, and most unorthodox cookbooks ever written.?
?Craig Claiborne, The New York Times

?The Supper of the Lamb is a rare, distilling nectar, albeit fizzy with bubbles of humor and wit...it is fully capable of rescuing us from the dangers of mediocrity daily foisted upon us by the too-fast pace of our lives.?
?From the Introduction by Deborah Madison

?The Supper of the Lamb is as awesomely funny, wise, beautiful, moving, preposterous a book as this reviewer has come across for years....It is a love letter to a world that ?will always be more delicious
than it is useful.??
?The New York Times Book Review -- Review

Review
"One of the funniest, wisest, and most unorthodox cookbooks ever written." (The New York Times - Craig Claiborne )

"The Supper of the Lamb is as awesomely funny, wise, beautiful, moving, preposterous a book as this reviewer has come across for years....It is a love letter to a world that ?will always be more delicious
than it is useful." (The New York Times Book Review )

From the Inside Flap
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling the benefits and wonders of old-fashioned home cooking in a world of fast food and prepackaged cuisine. This edition includes the original recipes and a new Introduction by Deborah Madison, the founder of Greens Restaurant in San Francisco and author of several cookbooks.

Customer Reviews

Delightful
A spiritual mentor of mine once said, "I'm going to write a book about food and spirituality, and you can do my research for me." I laughed and said, "Sorry, you've been beaten to it already." I was thinking of this book by Robert Farrar Capon. A delightful celebration of food and the Spirit! Worth buying simply for his devotional reflection on the beauties of an onion. I sometimes think of it when I peel an onion, and I smile. There is obviously tongue in cheek here, but there is also spiritual depth. The Bible makes it clear that we can be enslaved by food, and this seems to be reaching a nadir in our time- people obsessed with either eating or not eating. What we need are wise, humble men like Brother Capon, to remind us of the powerful mysteries of food and the path by which we can both enjoy it and be free in our enjoyment. This is not a cookbook, but it gives us much needed "recipes" all the same!

Profound and meaning ful. A cookbook like no other.
"The Supper of the Lamb" is an unusual and profound book. The author, an Episcopal priest, is also quite the home chef, and has combined his culinary insights with his theological insights in a meaningful and moving way.

The premise of the book seems two-fold -- both indicated by the book's title. First, the book does, in fact, teach how one can serve a leg of lamb for eight people over four meals. No kidding! Each meal is described clearly, with all the ingredients easily obtainable, and all the instructions easy to follow. (His insights into stew are remarkable!)

However, the second premise indicated by the title of the book, is an introduction to "The Supper of the Lamb" as it is recounted in the book of Revelation. His understanding of Sacrifice; his description of wine; and his discussion of the "Greater Heartburn" all serve to make clear that our feasting in this life is nothing less than a foretaste of the Heavenly Kingdom.

This book needs to be read through in its entirety BEFORE you attempt any of the recipies. Then, read it again while you cook. Pray, cry, have a glass of wine, and FEAST!

Ferial Cooking!
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.