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Robert Farrar Capon is well known as the author of the modern classic The Supper of the Lamb (âawesomely funny, wise, beautiful, moving, preposterous,â said The New York Times) and other acclaimed books such as Genesis, the Movie. In Light Theology \u0026 Heavy Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro \u0026 Madeleine, Capon returns to the kitchen to present a spirited collection of pieces he describes as âculinary and theological snack food.â Providing significant nutritive value in terms of both cooking and thinking, Capon offers them âas a lark.â The protagonists of this endeavor are Pietro and Madeleine, a husband and wife with clear resemblances to the author and his wife, Valerie. With Caponâs signature wit and precision, Pietro and Madeleine explore such diverse topics as creativity, addiction, televangelism, spirituality, the correct way to slice a leg of lamb, and the virtues of diners. âGiven the irony of a God who saves the world by foolishness and weakness,â Capon writes, âand the hilarity by which he gives us corn, wine, and oilânot to mention his wonderfully two-faced creatures such as butter, salt, tobacco, and pork fatâthis is no world in which to land on one side of a paradox.â Nibbling away on Light Theology \u0026 Heavy Cream is to encounter an author who has âalways been perfectly substantial and perfectly silly at the same time,â but here âpropels himself faster and farther in both directions.â âYou challenge me to match the sum total of the worldâs miseries with a fast, but then you complain that I fall short because I have eaten lobster instead of beetles or something. Why, I could starve myself stone cold to death and still fall short. To use your very own argument, the worldâs miseries are tractable only to Godâs grace, not my merits. A lobster, obediently ingested, can remind me of that as well as anything else, eaten or not eaten, on the same principle.â âfrom the first chapter |
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