Posts Tagged ‘shojin ryori’
Food: Our Five Most-Read
A passionate chef serving up shojin-ryori plant-based cuisine; the founder of Kyoto’s first (and so far, only) Korean teahouse; an encounter at an unusual temple restaurant and indigenous Ainu cuisine in central Tokyo: these are Kyoto Journal’s top five most read articles on food.
Read MoreThe Garden on the Table
Frozen pea and potato chip casserole. Long before I came to Japan, that dish, symbolic of all those Family Potluck church dinners of childhood, had cemented in my mind the basic incompatibility of religion and good food. Years, later, the experience of Japanese temple food, or shojin ryori, came as a revelation to me…
Read MoreThe Wisdom of ShÅjin Cooking
ShÅjin ryÅri is rooted in the concept that the earth and body are inseparable. It is only through attaining a perfect symbiosis with the land that we can truly reap the benefits of the earth.
Read MoreListening to Vegetables: The Art of Tanahashi Toshio
The pleasure of shojin is to find freedom within limitation of using only vegetables.
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