Zen: The Art of Modern Eastern Cooking - Hardcover

Deng, Ming-Dao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579590047 ISBN 13: 9781579590048

Publisher: Soma Books, 1998

Synopsis

An innovative cookbook provides readers with a number of healthy recipes that emphasize the incorporation of color and seasonal ingredients in a meal in order to attain balance in life through one's diet. IP.

About this title

About the Author:

Author Deng Ming-Dao specializes in the nutrtional and dietary aspects of Taoism and Zen Buddhism. He is the author of six books on eastern philosophies.

The book features recipes from Arnold Wong, celebrated chef of San Francisco's EOS Restaurant, and an introduction by Edward Espe Brown, the president of the San Francisco Zen Center and chef at the renowned Greens restaurant. He is the author of four cookbooks, including the "Tassajara Bread Book."

Review:

"Zen: The Art of Modern Eastern Cooking," by Deng Ming-Dao is a restful book. That mey seem a contradiction in that the presumed aim of a cookbook is to activate the reader, motivating him or her to go into the kitchen and prepare food.

But the approach Deng has taken is so low-key, the book's design and photographs so clear and uncluttered, that your journey into the kitchen with this book is likely to be as soothing as slipping into a warm bath.

"Zen is simply everyday life lived with awareness" is the book's first sentance. Deng wants Zen cooking to be associated with common sense, health and pleasure. The nearly 100 recipes are appealing. Those we tested were well within the reach of most home cooks. They include many vegetable recipes, but the book is not vegetarian. There are recipes for lamb, chicken, and contemporary concepts including a shitake mushroom risotto and an Asian jambalaya... -- Chicago Tribune, February 24,1999

About this edition

• Publisher: Soma Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1579590047
• ISBN 13: 9781579590048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160