How To Cook Your Life

German filmmaker Doris Dorrie serves up a playful and insightful documentary about Zen, baking, affluence and waste as she profiles Buddhist teacher and best-selling cookbook author Edward Espe Brown (The Tassajara Bread Book). For Brown, cooking and serving food is all about using the body and savoring the senses; baking and meditation are intimately related as both require being fully aware of what is happening. A mischievous, "jaunty [and] refreshingly straightforward" New York Times cinematic cooking class packed with ideas.