Snow, Kimberley.

In Buddha's kitchen : cooking, being cooked, and other adventures in a meditation center / Kimberley Snow. - 1st ed. - 182 pages ; 21 cm.

Part 1. Boned, minced, reduced by half: 1. Retreat doing? -- 2. Religious roots -- 3. Nina, the evil kitchen elf -- 4. Meditating not -- 5. Insight -- 6. Shhhh -- 7. Living dharma -- 8. They used to call me god, but they'll never call me Buddha -- 9. Soup -- 10. Kitchen talk -- 11. Jizo ceremony -- 12. Impermanence -- Part 2. Don't expect applause: -- 13. Restaurant voices -- 14. My short but violent career as a chef -- 15. Transcending dualism while whipping egg whites into high, stiff peaks --16. Relaxing the mind -- 17. Bread -- 18. Naming -- 19. A cup of tea -- 20. Dzogchenpa among the Presbyterians -- 21. On having a teacher.

1590300475 (hardcover)

2002152896


Snow, Kimberly.


Buddhists--United States--Biography.
Spiritual biography--United States.
Cooking--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

BQ988.N69 / A3 2003

294.3/923/092 B