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Bettina Vitell's professional experience includes acting as the chief cook of a monastery and creating The Beat'n Path Cafe, one of New York City's first natural foods restaurants. She lives in San Francisco, where she teaches cooking and leads sensory awareness workshops.
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A Taste of Heaven and Earth: A Zen Approach to… par Bettina Vitell
Written by my friend Bettina. Every copy I've ever seen in anyone's house is food spattered. This is a practical working cookbook. Now continuously in print for 21 years. Nominated for the Julia Child Cookbook Award.
Most Zen related cookbooks are brown rice with a few pickled vegetables. This has so much more than that. All right, there's the Miso Soup, and a few stir fries, but there's also Mushroom Stoganoff (with Cashew Ginger Sauce) and intriguing pizza combinations ("Carrot and Beet Pizza"?).
It's not a big book for a cookbook (less than 250 pages) and part of that is philosophical. Overall, though it's got a nice blend of the intriguing and the familiar and manages to not come off preachy.
One of the blurbs on the back is from Thomas Moore: "It doesn't gag our throats with philosphy, but rather seasons our cooking and eating with small morsels of reflection." I couldn't agree more.… (plus d'informations)
It's not a big book for a cookbook (less than 250 pages) and part of that is philosophical. Overall, though it's got a nice blend of the intriguing and the familiar and manages to not come off preachy.
One of the blurbs on the back is from Thomas Moore: "It doesn't gag our throats with philosphy, but rather seasons our cooking and eating with small morsels of reflection." I couldn't agree more.… (plus d'informations)
This book describes, and provides recipes for Kaiseki, the light meal that accompanies the Japanese tea ceremony. The menu generally consists of a soup, three main dishes, and a sweet. As with most things in Japanese culture, attention is paid to the season.
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