From appetizers to desserts, the over 200 recipes presented here use the freshest ingredients in ways that will tantalize the palates of everyone from down-home vegetarians to the most discriminating gourmet cooks. In a chatty, informal style, Ed Brown sets out the recipes that have made the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center famous for its culinary offerings for more than thirty years. The recipes are interspersed throughout with line drawings, photographs of the Center and its environs, and Brown's own poetry.