How to Cook Your Life

Kenneth Turan gives "How to Cook Your Life" a recommendation:

This is an unexpectedly charming and enlightening film, a documentary that makes the most of the intersection of Zen Buddhism and cooking in the life of Edward Espe Brown, author of the celebrated Tassajara Bread Book. An inspired idea.
LA Times Capsule Review How to Cook Your Life

Synopsis:
Self-depreciating Zen Buddhist priest, chef, and Tessajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown takes over Buddhist center kitchens around the world to school viewers in the joys of organic cooking as filmmaker Doris Dörrie rolls camera to explore just how Zen wisdom and a sharp chef's knife can be the key components to a meal that nourishes both the body and the soul. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Doris Dörrie - Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer
Run Time: 1:33
Release November 2007