A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
Direction
Dörrie finds stillness without ever feeling static.
Writing
Brown's koans about burnt toast hit harder than expected.
Director
Doris Dörrie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edward Espe Brown was one of the first American Zen priests ordained in Japan, and Tassajara was the first Zen monastery established outside Asia.
The film quietly subverts 'food documentary' tropes by refusing to fetishize ingredients—it's about the doing, not the result. Radical for 2007.
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