“To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need …
Fatherhood Gruel
I said in an early post on this theme that eating disorders and food-fad disorders were a function of father hunger. Time to unpack that a bit. This is just a beginning, because it is a huge subject. One of the great problems we have in conservative Christian circles is that of accepting slanders about …
Our Daily Taste
“O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 27).
Losing Both God and the Thing Idolized
“Idolatry has two faults. It is not only a slur on the true God; it is also an insult to true things . . . The heaviest weight on the shoulders of the earth is still the age-old idolatry by whcih man has cheated himself of both Creator and creation” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper …
So Just Transfer All That to the Kitchen
“Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to …
The Placiness of Places
“The uniqueness, the placiness, of places derives not from abstractions like location, but from confrontations like man-onion” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 11).
How Food Catholics Differ Among Themselves
“Finally, my prejudices . . . I am also against margarine, ‘prepared’ foods, broiled grapefruit, marshmallow sweet potatoes, and whipped cream in pressurized cans. On the other hand, I am wild about peanut butter and canned fruit cocktail (even the kind that tastes like the can). I will eat as much process cheese as I …
The Corporations Are Way Ahead of You
I mentioned in an earlier post that one of the things needed in our discussions about contemporary foodism is more careful attention to basic logic. Related to this is the careless use of certain terms that are not defined as they ought to be, and are not used consistently thereafter. Whenever we are beat up …
Little Robot Bees
One of reasons a confused approach to food is increasingly common is because of a failure to apply the doctrine of the Fall to life around us. This can be seen in the very common use of the word natural as an unqualified term of praise. First, the doctrine. God created the world and all …
Therefore It Stays
“Nothing is more likely to become garbage than orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap. That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such …