Thanks to the Buddhist monk Kakuho Aoe, you're going to love rediscovering the joy of food and cooking. Zen, published by the L’Âge d’Homme Publishing, offers 99 recipes to nourish your body and mind. It helps you make this sense of well-being a more regular part of your daily life.
Kakuho Aoe, who also works as a chef at a temple in Tokyo, invites us to explore not only his culinary world but also our relationship with ourselves and the world through his recipes, which are sure to delight us and take us on a journey.
In this book, you’ll recognize some classic Japanese dishes that everyone is familiar with, such as miso soup, sashimi, tempura, and maki—to name just a few. Of course, we’re all familiar with them, and yet most of the recipes have been reimagined by Kakuho Aoe.
Among these 99 recipes, you’ll find a wide variety of dishes centered around a single ingredient. Tofu and rice are prepared in all sorts of ways, much to our delight. No one will be left out—there’s something for everyone!
To help readers prepare the recipes as successfully as possible, Kakuho Aoe explains the basics of his cooking, as well as how to prepare soups and rice, in his introduction. He also provides tips on making sauces to accompany the dishes and lists recommended ingredients at the end of the book.
What we love about Zen is the huge variety of recipes to choose from. With 99 of them, we’ve definitely got plenty to choose from! From this wide selection, you can choose from a variety of appetizers, and if you’d rather start with the main course right away, don’t worry—that’s totally fine. You’ll easily find your way around thanks to the various sections: appetizers, soups, tofu, roasted dishes, desserts, and more.
So if you’re not yet an expert in Asian cuisine, you’re sure to become one! You’ll even be able to impress your loved ones with amazing dishes (flying dragon heads, tofu with squash, etc.). And we, for one, absolutely love this wonderful new addition.
Zen: 99 Recipes to Nourish the Body and Mind by Kakuho Aoe, published by L’Âge d’Homme, 15 euros.
