about cutting oranges

"Do it lovingly--in perfect  quarters like little boats, or in staggered exfoliations like a flat map of a round world, or in one long spiral, as my grandfather used to do. Nothing is more likely to become garbage than an orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap."    --from Robert Farrar Capon in  The Supper of the Lamb.


I first posted this more three years ago and it has been one of the most viewed and googled posts I've ever done. All I can say is people must not know how to cut an orange and need to seek advice about it. But if you've never read The Supper of the Lamb, I highly recommend it. It's all about how to make four meals for eight people out of one leg of lamb. But it's much  more than that. Robert Farrar Capon makes you see preparing food in a new way, and it is rich with wisdom and entertainment. There is a whole chapter devoted to cutting up an onion!

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