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Edward Espe Brown

Auteur de Le Livre du Pain Tassajara

7+ oeuvres 2,389 utilisateurs 27 critiques 2 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Edward Espe Brown is author of the Tassajar Breada Book and past president of the San Francisco Zen Center. He helped found and run the internationally acclaimed Greens restaurant in San Francisco with the renowned chef Deborah Madison
Crédit image: How to Cook Your Life party, 2007, photo by Andrew Zakem

Œuvres de Edward Espe Brown

Oeuvres associées

Zen: The Art of Modern Eastern Cooking (1998) — Introduction — 57 exemplaires
Greyston Bakery Cookbook (1986) — Avant-propos — 52 exemplaires
How to Cook Your Life [2007 film] (2011) — Featured — 8 exemplaires

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Nom légal
Brown, Edward Espé
Autres noms
Jusan Kainei
Date de naissance
1945-03-24
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
San Anselmo, California, USA
Fairfax, California, USA
Professions
Buddhist Priest (ordained 1971)
writer
chef
Organisations
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Soto Zen Buddhist Association
Peaceful Sea Sangha
Courte biographie
Edward has been practicing Zen since 1965, and was ordained as Soto Zen Buddhist priest in 1971 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who gave him the Dharma name Jusan Kainei, which means "Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea."

Edward is also an accomplished chef, who helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco and worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook. Edward's other books include The Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking, The Tassajara Recipe Book, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He also edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures. In 2007, Edward appeared in How to Cook Your Life, a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film directed by Doris Dörrie.

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I went to the San Francisco Greens restaurant in the 1990's and had the most wonderful meal. I bought this book and have used it more than any other cookbook I own. This is a keeper.
 
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RuthInman123 | 4 autres critiques | Mar 22, 2024 |
This edition of The Greens Cook Book is out of print. There is a newer edition, but I have not seen it so cannot compare the two. Years ago, maybe around 1999 or 2000, I had the most amazing soup at a Portland restaurant that specialized in breakfast and lunch. I mentioned how much I loved it to the waiter who said it came right out The Greens Cook Book. Money was tight so I went to Barnes & Noble, picked up the cookbook and copied out the recipe, intending to buy it later, but later never came. Recently, one of my reviews at Powells.com was used in their email newsletter and they gave me a $40 credit as a thank you. I dithered about what to get, but finally decided I was finally going to get this cookbook for once and for all. And now, after all this time, the used copy was only five dollars. Nonetheless, at that ridiculously low price, it still more than 260 recipes that are still tested in the toughest trial there is, a restaurant kitchen.

The recipes are organized by the kinds of dishes you might want to make with chapters on salads, soups, pasta, casseroles, tarts, sandwiches, pizza, savory pastries, side dishes, sauces, and desserts. At the end of the book, there’s a section on pairing wines with vegetarian dishes, recommended kitchen tools, seasonal menus, and a glossary of foods used in the recipes. All in all, it’s a deep dive into vegetarian cooking that highlights simple flavors and your own creativity. More than one recipe gives you a list of possible ingredients so you can more or less make your own using their broad parameters.

There’s nothing flashy about The Greens Cook Book. There are no beautiful photos that will make you drool. The only illustrations are simple outline sketches of herbs and greens. The short introductions to recipes are just about the recipe, without any personal stories or history. It’s a serious cookbook focused on the recipes, not on the personality of the chef. It’s full of recipes that are delicious and you don’t have to be a vegetarian to enjoy them.

This is one of those cookbooks that become a staple, a foundational book like “The Joy of Cooking” or “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.” In addition to its rich collection of vegetarian recipes, it includes the basic on making soup stocks, sauces, and other building-block recipes that many cookbooks assume you know.

This is vegetarian cooking the way it should be. Cooking new and delicious dishes that are about abundance and flavor. Many vegetarian cookbooks focus on deprivation, trying to replicate the meats you have left behind. There is no deprivation in The Greens Cook Book because this is vegetarian cooking as a thing itself, not a replacement. There’s no feeling of being left out or of missing flavors. It’s all about great vegetables and ways to cook them that bring out their own rich and sumptuous flavor.

You can find The Greens Cook Book wherever they sell used books, including Powells and Amazon. There is a newer edition, but I don’t know if anything is different.

The Greens Cook Book at Powells Books
Greens Restaurant
Deborah Madison author site
Edward Espe Brown on Facebook

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Tonstant.Weader | 4 autres critiques | Jun 24, 2018 |
Got from Library - Don't buy
 
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jhawn | 4 autres critiques | Jul 31, 2017 |
Vegetable Pies, , p.221, good, simple, would do well without the pie shell.
 
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DromJohn | 4 autres critiques | Sep 18, 2016 |

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Œuvres
7
Aussi par
3
Membres
2,389
Popularité
#10,743
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
27
ISBN
52
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