Edward Espe Brown
Edward Espe Brown began cooking and practicing Zen in 1965. He was
the first head resident cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center from
1967 to 1970. He later worked at the celebrated Greens Restaurant
in San Francisco, serving as busboy, waiter, floor manager, wine
buyer, cashier, host, and manager. Ordained a priest by Shunryu
Suzuki Roshi, he has taught meditation retreats and vegetarian
cooking classes throughout North America and Europe. He is the
author of several bestselling cookbooks, including The Tassajara
Bread Book, and the editor of Not Always So, a book of lectures by
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He is the subject of the critically acclaimed
2007 documentary film How to Cook Your Life. He resides in Fairfax,
California.
"Your 'Zen and the art of cooking' one-stop shop. NO RECIPE is a
collection of essays by chef and cookbook author Edward Espe Brown,
each of which read like a meditation on food, mindfulness,
spirituality, and the art of cooking and eating in a way that is
both artful and reverent." --Bustle "[An] illuminating guide. Brown
presents cooking as a refreshing celebration of the mundane--an act
he feels is at the heart of understanding the sacred and a valuable
means of enlarging one's spirituality...[NO RECIPE's] down-to-earth
wisdom, generous spirit, and exuberant encouragement simply to cook
will appeal to all readers who enjoy cooking." --Publishers Weekly
"An ode to spiritual cooking that focuses not on what to cook but
how...Brown pulls lessons from his vast experience in the Zen
tradition to offer an inspiring take on culinary creation."
--Tricycle "Profound and insightful...Brown's loving re-creations
of cooking will stir a literal as well as
metaphorical hunger." --Library Journal "In a world full of diets,
rigid cooking instructions, and the search for the most perfect
ingredients, Edward Espe Brown offers a chance to relax and enjoy
the simple act of cooking in tandem with the Divine (as they
understand It). The bonus is renewed connection to, and acceptance
of, our bodies as a gift from God." --Retailing Insight (Anna
Jedrziewski, reviewer) "Here, Edward Brown draws on his lifetime of
cooking and Zen practice to show us how eating, cooking, and caring
for the kitchen are fundamental aspects of life to be deeply
valued, and how they can open our world to each of us." --Deborah
Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and The New Vegetarian
Cooking for Everyone "This is the only cookbook you will ever need.
True, it contains no recipes and no directives to cook this way or
that. Instead, it invites you into the kitchen to explore your
senses, your hands, your heart. Ed Brown is a Zen master artist;
food is his medium. Cooks and non-cooks alike will be moved by his
soulful meditations on topics as varied as taste-testing a single
potato chip, studying a stalk of broccoli until it tells you how it
wants to be flavored, how (and whether) to de-stem spinach or tear
or cut lettuce, and preparing food for a bachelor party. This book
of down-to-earth spiritual teachings has a simple, insistent
message: find out for yourself!" --Norman Fischer, poet, Zen
priest, and author of What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind
"This wonderful book warms your heart! Original, inviting,
plainspoken, unpretentious, and deep. Just by reading it you can
taste more goodness." --Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"No Recipe manifests the core mystery of cooking. Ed Brown observes
that 'Cookbooks tend to provide the instructions for working with
the materials, while working with yourself [and what comes up for
you in the kitchen] will largely be up to you.' Ed's approach to
nourishment will help you melt the boundaries between the act of
cooking and the edges of yourself and make the kitchen sacred
ground for unfolding and awakening." --Hosho Peter Coyote, author,
actor, and Zen priest
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