Review of How to Cook Your Life (2007) by Mike L — 12 Feb 2012

Several delicious nuggets of wisdom on life.

This review of How to Cook Your Life (2007) was written by Mike L on 12 Feb 2012.

How to Cook Your Life has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Carlos S (367) on 26 Jul 2008

Don't have to like zen to learn from this movie. Actually I'm not too much into new age, but i'm well into food…

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By Frederick M (227) on 05 Jul 2008

A grown man cries over tea pots. That's one of the few highlights in this rather bland movie…

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By Bora B (21) on 19 Feb 2008

I liked the Zen Master Dogan's saying - Don't waste even a grain of rice, it is as if your eye…

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By Dinithi G (7) on 09 Dec 2007

I am going to buy the bread book and read it for life…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 25 Oct 2007

The documentary plays like a long, dull parody of pure living…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 16 Nov 2007

A jaunty mix of chanting, baking and spiritual uplift, How to Cook Your Life introduces us to the cooking classes of Edward Espe Brown, a twinkling…

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By Shen S (14) on 09 Dec 2007

How to Cook Your Life is inspired by Zen Master Dogen's celebrated Instructions to the Cook (Tenzokyojun), which uses the preparation of food…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 24 Oct 2007

Despite the film's repeated exhortations that humans need to be more humble about who is cooking whom, the broccoli continues to seem inert…

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By Adam T (636) on 15 Feb 2009

This was a decent documentary on Zen Buddhism and is not at all an instructional cooking video…

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By Private U (13,627) on 12 Nov 2007

Total disappointment, don't go see this movie. No substance to this film, it never stays on a topic long enough to develop it…

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