The book is very good and have texts between recipes that deserves its own book. It's a nice reading and learning and can give you some insights about zen cooking, but traditional Soto Zen meals are vegan (this is a Rinzai Zen book) so I feel a little awkward about reading "A Zen method to crack a hard boiled egg". The recipes can be easily adapted to a vegan meal, but even so, it could be excluded completely without any loss. Why they insist to see animals as "'food' provider" and why waste 10 liters of water and 10kg of grains to 1 liter of milk or some not healthy eggs? I don't know, maybe neither them.
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The book is very good and have texts between recipes that deserves its own book. It's a nice reading and learning and can give you some insights about zen cooking, but traditional Soto Zen meals are vegan (this is a Rinzai Zen book) so I feel a little awkward about reading "A Zen method to crack a hard boiled egg". The recipes can be easily adapted to a vegan meal, but even so, it could be excluded completely without any loss. Why they insist to see animals as "'food' provider" and why waste 10 liters of water and 10kg of grains to 1 liter of milk or some not healthy eggs? I don't know, maybe neither them.
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