One Taste Cookbook

By Leslie Crabtree Softcover | 131 pages 150 meals for 50 people over 10 days. A vibrant and exciting collection of recipes designed for big and small events. Whether you're cooking for a group of herbivores, carnivores, gluten-free, dairy-free, or all of the above, this book belongs in your kitchen. "One Taste is a cookbook that retreat cooks will relish for its menus, recipes, culinary logistics, and its insider's understanding of the pure motivation that propels one into the cauldron of a retreat kitchen. And those of us who participate in retreats - who sit on cushions and then enjoy the intervals of magically manifested meals - can read it with deeper appreciation of the work and wisdom that produces the food. "In a strong retreat, the meditation of cooks and participants blends and creates unexpected synchronicities. Sometimes a dish exactly satisfies an exact (momentary) craving. Sometimes both kitchen staff and practitioners in the shrine room have a low energy day when they st