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How To Cook Your Life

Live via Skype: Zen Master, chef, and Tessajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown.
Doris Dörrie's lively documentary follows Zen Master, chef, and Tessajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown as he explores how Zen wisdom and a sharp chef's knife can be the key components to a meal that nourishes both the body and the soul
Move over "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance!" Here comes Zen and the Art of a Good Meal! Filmmaker Doris Dörrie turns her attention to Buddhism and that age-old saying, you are what you eat. In How To Cook Your Life, Dörrie enlists the help of the charismatic Zen Master, chef, and Tessajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown to explain the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they apply to the preparation of food as well as life itself. Brown takes over Buddhist center kitchens around the world to school viewers in the joys of organic cooking and explore just how Zen wisdom and a sharp chef's knife can be the key components to a meal that nourishes both the body and the soul. "How a person goes about dealing with the ingredients for his meals" explains Dörrie "says a lot about him. How To Cook Your Life teaches us to be attentive in our everyday dealings with the most mundane things and also open our eyes to one of the most beautiful occupations: cooking."
USA, 2007, 94 min., color, Rated PG-13, DVD / Director: Doris Dörrie / With: Edward Espe Brown