“This charming doc takes its time while focusing on food, but highlights larger lessons that audiences will reflect upon long after leaving the theater.”
In How to Cook Your Life, Edward Espe Brown endearingly embodies one of Buddhism's guiding principles: a sense of humor about our arrogances and illusions.
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Kenneth Turan
RTLos Angeles TimesNov 16, 2007
An unexpectedly charming and enlightening film.
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Elizabeth Weitzman
RTNew York Daily NewsNov 16, 2007
If you enjoy time spent in the kitchen, you may find some surprising enlightenment in Brown's observations.
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Dorothy Woodend
RTThe Tyee (British Columbia)Aug 23, 2017
Salient points about the nature of food and culture are gently made, but the tone of the film is never preachy nor didactic, and the correlations between spiritual teaching and food make for a nice series of lessons learned.
