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From inside flap: "Americans, mend thy fast-food ways and minds. What with the junk foods, convenience foods, and the hundred and one diets that discourage bothering with food at all, a culinary resolution has fastened its grip on the national taste.
Food for thought, Robert Farrar Capon's playfull philosophical manifesto on the art of eating, is not just one more lament over the demise of home cooking. It is instead a sustained attempt to refresh both our sensibilities about food and our approach to arousing them. And though filled with recipes, it is not a cookbook, but rather, a spiritual guide, by means of cookery, to resurrecting all of life's pleasures.
It is clutter, Father Capon argues, that is the archenemy of the best. Elegance in food and joy in eating come with the realization that less is more, and anything that gets in the way of that axiom must be banished from the kitchen and the mind. First, we must avoid the temptation of the marketplace: seduced by abundance, we have too many knives, useless gadgets, the wrong size pots, badly butchered meats, overpriced poultry, and the unnatural belief that vegetables grow year-round. And having taken ingredients for granted, no wonder we believe that man eats simply to relieve hunger."
Food for thought, Robert Farrar Capon's playfull philosophical manifesto on the art of eating, is not just one more lament over the demise of home cooking. It is instead a sustained attempt to refresh both our sensibilities about food and our approach to arousing them. And though filled with recipes, it is not a cookbook, but rather, a spiritual guide, by means of cookery, to resurrecting all of life's pleasures.
It is clutter, Father Capon argues, that is the archenemy of the best. Elegance in food and joy in eating come with the realization that less is more, and anything that gets in the way of that axiom must be banished from the kitchen and the mind. First, we must avoid the temptation of the marketplace: seduced by abundance, we have too many knives, useless gadgets, the wrong size pots, badly butchered meats, overpriced poultry, and the unnatural belief that vegetables grow year-round. And having taken ingredients for granted, no wonder we believe that man eats simply to relieve hunger."
