Event

How to Cook Your Life with Edward Brown

Cooking is not just following recipes, but "seeing with your eyes,
smelling with your nose, tasting with your tongue." Beyond rote
and chore doing what you've been toldis the freedom to realize
the way to cook, letting the ingredients come forward to awaken
and nourish, letting yourself come alive with energy and resourceful-
ness.

The cooking classes will focus on some of the essentials of Zen
practice in the kitchen, and on use of the five flavors in harmony.
Activities will include baking, cutting, chopping, cleaning, carefully
structured tastings, while preparing food together.

Food is mystery, source, and sustenance, meeting the heart of the
matter in meeting the ingredients, oneself and others. Let's make
it happen!

Beginning with The Tassajara Bread Book in 1970
Edward Espe Brown has been inspiring cooks
and bakers to wake up and realize their capacity
to nourish themselves and others with their labors
in the kitchen.

Ordained as a zen priest by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in
1971, he has been leading meditation retreats and
cooking classes for more than 25 years. His edited
talks by Suzuki Roshi Not Always So was published
in 2001.

The subject of a documentary movie
How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris
Doerrie (2007), his Complete Tassajara
Cookbook came out in September, 2009.