Tassajara Dinners & Desserts

In "Tassajara Dinners and Desserts", readers will not only find recipes filled with the flavor of Zen practice but also stories from past guest cooks, such as Deborah Madison, Ed Brown, Annie Somerville, and many others, whose calm and peaceful minds were truly tested behind the doors of the Tassajara kitchen.

The monastic kitchen differs from a normal restaurant kitchen in that the activity of preparing food is understood to be a spiritual practice. "The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center" teaches that every aspect of one's day can be lived with mindfulness - even food preparations and choices of what we eat.