How to Cook Your Life.

"A documentary about Edward Espe Brown, a Zen priest and cook who wrote the popular Tassajara Bread Book, How to Cook Your Life may gently preach about organic cooking—and the bonds shared by eater and food - but gentle preaching is still preaching," writes Nick Schager in Slant.

"In typical [Doris] Dörrie fashion, the film is wry, ingratiating, and ultimately ambitious in ways too low-key to announce themselves," writes Dennis Harvey in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "However, viewers are advised to bring along at least a casual interest in Zen philosophy - the unsympathetic may find themselves rolling their eyes at the seemingly flat simplicity ('When you wash the rice, wash the rice') of the many wisdoms offered here."

Posted by dwhudson at October 26, 2007 8:10 AM