Robert Farrar Capon - It is precisely because no one needs soup, fi

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

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Capon, Robert Farrar. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection. Doubleday, 1969, p. 32.

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