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How to Cook Your Life directed by Doris Dorrie how-to-cook-your-life.de
   Alternately charming, playful and at times petulant, Brown teaches one to take pride in cooking and through it creates a sense of wellness and community. Interspersed with footage of Brown's teacher, the late Zen master Suzuki Roshi—whose advice to Brown was "When you wash the rice, wash the rice, when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots, when you stir the soup, stir the soup"—and visits to Zen centers around the world, "How to Cook Your Life" is a witty meditation on finding meaning in our lives. The film both makes for a fine doc and essay on the meditative experience of cooking and working in the kitchen. Brown is an ordained Zen priest who teaches at several San Francisco Zen centers and holds meditation and cooking classes in the U.S. and across Europe. He is the author of numerous cookbooks—among them the famous "Tassajara Bread Book" and "The Tassajara Recipe Book" that reflect his 30 years of cooking. German director Dorrie's award-winning fiction and documentary films also includes the hit comedies "Men," and "Me and Him." In addition to directing, she is a celebrated novelist and instructor at the Academy of Television & Film in Munich, her alma mater. |
