By Robert Farrar Capon
Note: my copy was from a local library but a more recent version can be found here.
Capon is a dietary iconoclast. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The Supper of the Lamb is a cookbook in roughly the same way that Moby Dick is a book on whaling.
His assertion of the value of real objects is refreshing. More important is his meditation on the synthesis of priest and sacrifice (or lion and lamb) found in the paradoxical person of Jesus Christ. He would, I’m sure, disparage my comparison of this to a Hegelian triad but I think the description is fitting.
I disagree with his position on wine but even at that I can’t disagree with most of his reasons for his position. Nether do I think we would see eye to eye on some doctrinal positions. Still, the book, while maintaining a highly entertaining flow or meandering of thoughts, lead me to think of eating and food in a more Christ centered way.