It would never occur to anyone at Gourmet to take the kind of sleek, witty food photographs I associate with the Life "Great Dinne...rs" series, or the crammed, decadent pictures the women's magazines specialize in. Gourmet gives you a full-page color picture of an incredibly serious rack of lamb persille sitting on a somber Blue Canton platter by Mottahedeh Historic Charleston Reproductions sitting on a stiff eighteenth-century English mahogany table from Charles Deacon & son--and it's no wonder I never cook anything from this magazine: the pictures are so reverent I almost feel I ought to pray to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You of the top hat, Mr. God,... you of the Cross made of lamb bones, you of the camps, sacking the rejoice out of Germany, I tell you this . . . it will not do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improveme...nt; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, "Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth--who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast;... Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We found it at last, an' a little shed Where they shut up the lamb at night.... We looked in an' seen them huddled thar, So warm an' sleepy an' white; An' THAR sot Little Breeches an' chirped, As peart as ever you see, "I wants a chaw of terbacky, An' that's what's the matter of me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly scept...ical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and the oxen near The worn foundations of their resting-place,... The holy manger where their bed is corn And holly torn for Christmas. If they die, As Jesus, in the harness, who will mourn? Lamb of the shepherds, Child, how still you lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »