How to Cook Your Life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | How to cook your life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Doris Dörrie |
| script | Doris Dörrie |
| production | Franz X. Gernstl, Fidelis Mager |
| camera |
Jörg Jeshel Doris Dörrie |
| cut | Suzi Giebler |
| occupation | |
How to Cook Your Life is a German documentary by Doris Dörrie about the Zen teacher Edward Espe Brown and his cooking classes.
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The film accompanies three cooking courses by Zen teacher Edward Espe Brown as a documentary. The cooking classes take place at the Scheibbs Buddhist Center in Austria, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California and the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center near San Francisco. Brown teaches the participants the art of cooking, at the same time he also teaches them the " Art of Living ". He conveys wisdom that has its roots in the centuries-old tradition of the Zen master Dōgen , the founder of the Sōtō-shū . Brown shows participants how to discover the Buddha in simple kitchen chores such as washing rice or kneading dough. The individual cooking lessons alternate with silent meditation and recitations.
The film is complemented by a review of the life of Brown and his teacher. The film also looks at eating habits and poverty in the United States.
Chapter of the film
- greeting
- Free your hands!
- Who cooks who
- fiasco
- Cut through the confusion
- Anger
- abundance
- What's in the food?
- No likes, no dislikes
- Matchless
- Flaws and flaws
- Credits
Bonus material on the DVD
- “Interview with Doris Dörrie” about the film
- "Potato Chip Teaching" by Edward Espe Brown
- "Food & Wasting Food Teaching" by Edward Espe Brown
- "Cinema trailer"
Movie review
“ How to Cook Your Life is a small film that takes the liberty of presenting a person who has a few suggestions to make. Not more but also not less."
“This does not result in a film about cooking, but rather a discussion of our relationship to food, which ultimately reflects the relationship to ourselves. A delightful, thought-provoking introduction to the spirituality of Zen cooking, which is also an expression of self-care and caring. "
Web links
- How to Cook Your Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- How to Cook Your Life at filmportal.de
- How to Cook Your Life at crew united
- Doris Dörrie: About cooking and the joie de vivre , interview with Doris Dörrie and Edward Espe Brown from the magazine "Causes and Effects" on interfilm-akademie.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9 .