How to Cook Your Life

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Audience Member Our slightly older contemporary Kainei Edward Espé Brown (born March 24, 1945) is the subject of this beautiful documentary that Zilpha's cousin Bill sent us in advance of our visit this Fall to his and his wife June's home in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing could have made me more excited about our visit. Brown is the author of The Tassajara Bread Book, written at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and is justly still influential. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Several delicious nuggets of wisdom on life. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Whereas I don't agree with everything in this movie, I loved watching it. And the food looked delicious. It's a nice change in nutritional documentaries; instead of highlighting the bad like Food inc, Supersize Me, Botany of Desire, etc, this one highlights the good in food. And Edward Brown just finds the little details of life so enjoyable, that you can't help but like him- especially watching his attempt to open prepackaged cheese. But like I said, I don't agree with everyone. The scavenger, for example, who boasts about saving upwards of $800 a month because she dumpster dives and pulls fruit off of private trees was not something I would advertise, and I don't feel it belonged in this movie. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Ufff, muy buena .. en mi opinion.. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member <i>How To Waste Your Life</i>. Is this guy for real? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Sure, documentaries are usually slow and uneventful, but they should be informative. Well, Doris Dorrie doesn't have much going on with informing in this picture.<p>There is no clear point as to what this documentary is trying to be. Is it a film about food? Is it about cooking? Is it about religion? Supposedly, a handful of people are attending some sort of zen class with cooking, but after a brief shot of the day's schedule in the beginning, there is no indication of any schedule being followed. The film bounces around from topic to topic and it also momentarily switches to other people for interviews that seem to be on a tangent from what Chef Edward Brown is talking about.</p><p>Chef Brown himself is very bland and monotonous in the way he talks. This makes this 90 minute picture extremely boring from beginning to end. He attempts humor from time to time, as he laughs at his own comments, but most, if not all, are very hard to find laughable.</p><p><i>How to Cook Your Life</i> does have a message that some will connect with; however, this film just does a bad job at conveying it.</p> Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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