The flavors of Zen
Taïkan Jyoji & Françoise Dye

In the heart of the Ardèche, the Zen Center of the Green Cliff, led by Taïkan Jyoji, receives practitioners and trainees, providing them, besides teaching, lodging and food.
Cook of the place for over fifteen years, Françoise Dye has collected in this book 108 vegetarian recipes, born of the need to respect the balanced diet, to satisfy the palate and to adapt to the needs, the means, the seasons .. On the menu, vegetables and cereals, salads and soups, as well as drinks and desserts are offered through recipes adaptable depending on the ingredients available. Simple and family, the kitchen of Françoise Dye is a springboard to the creativity of its users.
Master Taïkan Jyoji's "grains of salt" adorn the book with lively interventions on the themes of vegetarianism, organic products, tea ... and reveal tasty Zen legends.

After having spent seven years at the Zen monastery of Shofuku-ji in Japan, an experience he recounts in Route of a Zen Master from the West (Almora 2008), Taïkan Jyoji returned to France in 1975 and founded the Zen Center in Ardèche. of the Green Cliff to establish, under the aegis of the high authorities of this school, the foundations of Zen Rinzai for Europe.
Françoise Dye was the cook at Center de la Falaise Verte from 1993 to 2008.

Hardcover - 17cm x 19,5cm - Color Pictures
206 Pages
Autheur: Taïkan Jyoji & Françoise Dye
Editions Almora