Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

Robert Farrar Capon — American Clergyman

Robert Farrar Capon was an American Episcopal priest and author. He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925. A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. In 1965, he published his first book, Bed and Board, and in 1977 he left the full-time ministry to devote more time to his writing career. He authored a total of twenty books, including Between Noon and Three, The Supper of the Lamb, Genesis: The Movie, and a trilogy on Jesus’ parables: The Parables of Grace, The Parables of the Kingdom, and The Parables of Judgment... (wikipedia)

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

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.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.