THE SUPPER OF THE LAMB

by Robert Farrar Capon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 24, 1968

Father Capon's first book, Bed and Board, was a rara avis indeed: a religious ""sleeper."" It was, moreover, rarissima by virtue of having been written by an Episcopal priest and yet becoming a best-seller among Catholics. The present work promises to follow in those enviable footsteps. It is a cookbook, and yet far more than that. It is a whimsical, witty and sophisticated treatise on how to cook lamb to perfection; but it is also an explanation of how man must raise himself to perfection by learning to live in harmony with the world and himself. To Father Capon, man and his world is as real and as important as God and heaven, in the sense that a love and enjoyment of one is indispensable to the love and attainment of the other. And to him, as to any gourmet, nothing could be a more apt metaphor for the act of living well than the act of eating well. His Supper of the Lamb could accurately be called many things: a gastronomic essay, a treatise on Christian humanism, an ingenious literary experiment, or a profound dissertation on the mechanics of salvation both natural and otherwise. Perhaps it is easiest to say simply that it is a small masterpiece that will become a classic, and let it go at that.

Pub Date: Jan. 24, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION