How to Cook Your Life party, 2007, photo by Andrew Zakem

Edward Espe Brown

Author of The Tassajara Bread Book

Also known as: Edward E. Brown, Brown Edward E., Edward Espe Brown, Edward Espe Brown

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Books by Edward Espe Brown

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The Tassajara Bread Book 416 copies, 9 reviews
Tassajara cooking 176 copies, 4 reviews
The Tassajara Recipe Book 77 copies
Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings 60 copies
The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from… 5 copies
La cocina Zen 2 copies
The Tassajara Bread Book, Revised & Updated Edition 1 copy

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c. 1945 [1945]

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USA

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Fairfax, Marin County, California, USA

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Soto Zen Buddhist priest

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Chef

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Edward has been practicing Zen since 1965, and was ordained as Soto Zen Buddhist priest in 1971 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who gave him the Dharma name Jusan Kainei, which means "Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea."

Edward is also an accomplished chef, who helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco and worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook. Edward's other books include The Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking, The Tassajara Recipe Book, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He also edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures. In 2007, Edward appeared in How to Cook Your Life, a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film directed by Doris Dörrie.

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