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Chargement... Light Theology and Heavy Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro and Madelinepar Robert Farrar Capon
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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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It is "snack food" in that the theology portions are very light and leave you wanting more. Not in the bad way, but in the way that prompts you to go on to have a more fulfilling meal later.
The cooking portions are a bit over my head, even though I'm a more accomplished cook than most of my peers. I can only aspire to be able to have such an easy familiarity with food as the author exhibits in this text.
As a whole I was left with the feeling that I missed a lot of the implications of the stories. I fear I am not quite clever enough to get everything he was trying to say.
There are two quotes I bookmarked to save.
From "Carlo the Crass"
Heresy cannot profitably be attacked by telling heretics they are wrong. To do so betrays a fatal ignorance of what heresy is. It is not an error; rather, it is a truth held in such isolation from other truths that it necessarily becomes only a half-truth.
From "Mystery Train"
"But if certain behavior is wrong, doesn't the church have an obligation to tell people so? And aren't even parents under the same obligation to help their children say No to cigarette smoking?"
"They certainly may do so as representatives of the Friend of Sinners, but not, I think, at the price of giving the world the impression that either the church's or the family's principal business is sin-prevention. God in Jesus didn't prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left. If we want to represent him, we shouldn't misrepresent his methods. We should instead busy ourselves with the twin jobs of forgiveness and healing--with, in short, the Gospel work of raising the dead by laying down our lives for our friends. The world is not a collection of good listeners waiting for the right advice to come down the track; it's a bunch of corpses totally immune to talk. Its resurrection is not in the least facilitated by a surgeon-general's warning that sin should have been avoided in the first place." ( )