![]() ![]() While Capon has not asked for it any more than the orange peel could, anyone who surveys his body of known and lesser-known writings is sure to come away with an armful of ornaments destined for heavenly lighting fixtures. Capon’s point about the orange peel is that God’s judgment, made in the enthusiasm of love, is right and that such a recognition should move us to retrain our own attention and appreciation. He would have been ninety-five last month and with more than twenty published books to his name much of his work has already begun to circle the drain of human memory. ![]() Capon is known by many for his food writing but all of his work is shot through with his Chestertonian view of God as a jovial Romantic. Robert Farrar Capon imagines God himself rescuing the orange peel from the trash to hang it lovingly from his chandelier, and the picture has become my mind’s stock image for the often-inexplicable affection shown by the creator to his creation.įr. What at times seems fit only for the cosmic garbage heap, however, is often cherished in hand and given pride of place by a doting Father. ![]() Who hasn’t known the utter satisfaction of removing-or watching another’s studied thumb remove-the peel of an orange in one long, inviolate spiral? Whatever delight this springy curl of citrus inspires is short-lived, though, and at the end of the day, the thing is in the trash all the same. ![]()
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