Edward Espe Brown

Edward Espe Brown was the first head cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and later helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. He is the author of NO RECIPE: Cooking as Spiritual Practice, several bestselling cookbooks, and the subject of the 2007 film, How to Cook Your Life.

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Please Enjoy Your Food

It could be the best meditation you do all day.

By Edward Espe Brown

Nov 25, 2021

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The Freedom of No Recipe

Rather than force reality to bend to will, a Zen chef cooks—and lives—with what is.

By Edward Espe Brown

May 24, 2018

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