How to Cook Your Life

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LIONS GATE HOME ENT.
EAN: 0031398233053
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions:00250
Label: Lions Gate
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: LGED23305D
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 2008
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate

Features:

• DVD Details: Actors: Edward Espe Brown, Doris Dörrie, Fidelis Mager, Franz X. Gernstl, Richard Sterling
• Directors: Doris Dörrie
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 ; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: May 6, 2008 ; Run Time: 94 minutes

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
There may be more to the old adage that "you are what you eat" than you think. Just ask Zen master/renowned chef Edward Espe Brown. In this fascinating documentary, Brown explains how principles of Zen Buddhism can be applied to food preparation--illustrating how what you ingest not only impacts your body, but your soul and worldview as well. 93 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English; theatrical trailer.

Amazon.com:
Dorris Dörrie's jazz-inflected documentary should come with a disclaimer: Don't watch on an empty stomach. While it doesn't cover the basics of food preparation, How to Cook Your Life offers a delectable introduction to Buddhist living. Yes, subject Edward Brown is both pastry chef and Zen priest, but Dörrie's approach is more holistic than instructional. (For culinary specifics, viewers can always pick up Brown's bestselling how-to guide, The Tassajara Bread Book.) In other words, home cooking--as opposed to fast food and pre-packaged goods--isn't just healthier and better for the environment; it connects the creator to the product of their efforts. And it helps if they know more about the tools of their trade. Hence, the director of 2000's Enlightenment Guaranteed and a Buddhist practitioner herself, also interviews organic gardeners, cookware salespeople, and the like. Throughout, Brown shows students in the US and Austria how to prepare vegetarian pizza, fruit tarts, and other wholesome delights. All the while, he talks about the connection between the body and the spirit. Fortunately, Brown isn't some kind of holier-than-though type. Little things, like hard-to-open packages, can set him off, but he's just as quick to laugh. To him, cooking is a way to nourish yourself and others. As he likes to say, "When you wash the rice, wash the rice." (True, he sounds like Yoda at times; it’s actually quite charming.) Like Super-Size Me, How to Cook Your Life is an elegy for those long-lost days of leisurely dinners with loved ones. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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