home and by giving baking and cooking workshops at Zen centers in the United States, Canada and Austria. Brown tells his students that "every dough is different, just as every day is different". He also says that baking and living both come down to the same thing: "developing attention and awareness". He combines zazen with qigong, yoga, and handwriting change, so that some critics call his teaching style "Zen Lite". Brown told Carol Ness, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, "I'm not insistent on the forms. We're not all serious and sober. We sit and we talk." Brown is the subject of the 2007 documentary film How to Cook Your Life by Doris Dörrie, in which he and Dörrie suggest embracing joy and spirit within food habits. "When you’re cooking, you’re not just cooking, you’re not just working on food...you’re also working on yourself, you’re working on other people." He also appears in Spiritual Revolution (2008), a less well-known film by Alan Swyer. Books The Tassajara Bread Book.(2011) [1970] Shambhala Publications. Written at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. 1970 first edition: , . 1995 25th anniversary edition: , . Tassajara Cooking. (1986) Shambhala Publications. , . Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings: Recipes and Reflections. (1997) Riverhead Books. , . The Tassajara Recipe Book. (2000) Shambhala Publications. , . The Greens Cookbook, with Deborah Madison. (2001) Random House Broadway imprint. , . Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. Lectures by Shunryu Suzuki (2008) [2003] (ed.) HarperCollins. , . The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen Shambhala Publications. (2011). No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice Sounds True (2018). See also Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States References External links Edward Espe Brown website, Peaceful Sea Sangha. 1945 births Living people American religious writers People from San Anselmo, California San Francisco Zen Center Soto Zen Buddhists Zen Buddhism writers Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers American Zen Buddhists Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area Religious leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area