Finding Yourself in the Kitchen: Kitchen Meditations and Inspired Recipes from a Mindful Cook

Velden, Dana

ISBN 10: 1623364973 / ISBN 13: 9781623364977

Published by Rodale Books, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding Yourself in the Kitchen: Kitchen Meditations and Inspired Recipes from a Mindful Cook
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623364973
• ISBN 13: 9781623364977
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Many books teach the mechanics of cooking and even inspire us to cook; not many dwell on the kitchen's ability to be a place of awakening and joy. In Finding Yourself in the Kitchen, Dana Velden asks you to seek deeper meaning in this space and explores what cooking can teach about intimacy, failure, curiosity, and beauty.

Finding Yourself in the Kitchen is a book of essays, each focused on a cooking theme that explores how to practice mindfulness in the kitchen--and beyond--to discover a more deeply experienced life. It also offers meditation techniques and practical kitchen tips, including 15 of Velden's own favorite recipes.

What happens when we find ourselves in the kitchen? What vitalizes, challenges, and delights us there? An extension of her popular "Weekend Meditation" column on TheKitchn.com, this book offers you the chance to step back and examine your life in a more inspired way. The result is a reading experience that satisfies, nourishes and inspires.

About the Author

Dana Velden is a Zen priest who lived and studied for 15 years at the San Francisco Zen Center. She has been writing for The Kitchn since 2008 and has contributed to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women and The Kitchn Cookbook. She lives in Oakland, CA.