Robert Farrar Capon is well known as the author of the modern
classic The Supper of the Lamb ("awesomely funny, wise, beautiful,
moving, preposterous," said The New York Times) and other acclaimed
books such as Genesis, the Movie. In Light Theology & Heavy
Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro & Madeleine, Capon
returns to the kitchen to present a spirited collection of pieces
he describes as "culinary and theological snack food." Providing
significant nutritive value in terms of both cooking and thinking,
Capon offers them "as a lark." The protagonists of this endeavor
are Pietro and Madeleine, a husband and wife with clear
resemblances to the author and his wife, Valerie. With Capon's
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. "Given the irony of a God who saves the world by
foolishness and weakness," Capon writes, "and the hilarity by which
he gives us corn, wine, and oil-not to mention his wonderfully
two-faced creatures such as butter, salt, tobacco, and pork
fat-this is no world in which to land on one side of a paradox."
Nibbling away on Light Theology & Heavy Cream is to encounter
an author who has "always been perfectly substantial and perfectly
silly at the same time," but here "propels himself faster and
farther in both directions." "You challenge me to match the sum
total of the world's 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 world's
miseries are tractable only to God's 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." -from
the first chapter
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