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The Sacred Kitchen: Higher-Consciousness Cooking for Health and Wholeness
by Robin Robertson and Jon Robertson
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Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: New World Library May 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1577310926
ISBN-13: 978-1577310921
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces
Book Description
This book celebrates the everyday act of cooking as a sacred, life- giving activity and reclaims the kitchen as a temple in the home. Its recipes and sample menus are organized by theme and interspersed among chapters that include tips on using feng shui to supercharge kitchen space, learning to work with the chi (life force) in foods, and incorporating cross-cultural celebrations into mealtimes to bring friends and family closer together. Readers will learn how serving guests can be a part of fulfilling their dharma, why washing dishes is actually a form of yoga, and how to use chopping vegetables as a technique for relaxation. They'll also learn how to create and serve a host of mouthwatering and enlightening dishes, from Jade Ecstasy Soup to Summer Solstice Salad to Create Your Own Reality Sundaes.
Reader Reviews
In this excellent book, Jon and Robin Robertson explore the sacredness of food preparation as taught in many different religions and cultures. They also give you plenty of good vegetarian recipes from around the world. Sprinkled thoroughout their book are quotations, prayers, and meditations from different Paths to help make your cooking experience a more spiritual one. Also included are well-written essays on how such mundane activities as chopping, slicing, and stirring your foods can become a form of meditation when done with focused intention and centeredness. Regarding Jewish content, the book does include Judaism among its lists of quotes, as well as a section on the various foods used in the Passover Seder (pp.112-115). Disappointingly, however, there is no mention at all of the preparations and food rituals connected with Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath.) The Passover Seder is performed only twice a year (first and second evenings of Passover) but the Sabbath happens once a week -- 52 times a year -- and is on a higher spiritual level than Passover in the cycle of Jewish life. For an observant Jew, the Sabbath is the focus of the entire week, to the point that, if we find an especially nice fruit or vegetable, such as one that is just coming into season or difficult to obtain, we save it to serve in honor of the Sabbath. This makes the Sabbath a central part of food consciousness when we go shopping during the week. The authors here do mention the Jewish "hamotzi" blessing over bread (p.42) but seems to have no idea that the most common time to say this would be over the two specially-braided loaves of bread (challah) served at each of the three sacred meals on the Sabbath. To be fair, the Robertsons are not the only writers to make this mistake -- other eclectic books of this type overlook the Sabbath also. I find myself wondering if this might not be the subconscious result of negative attitudes about the Sabbath in the Western gentile/Christian world (the Robertsons are not Jewish.) At any rate, they missed a major area of Jewish food symbolism here. There is also a serious blooper on pp. 102-103 which states that "Moslems fast during the day and Jews fast in the evening." This is wrong. Most Jewish fasts, both public fasts and those for private vows, are from sunrise to sunset, exactly the same as the Muslim fasts. The only time Jews ever fast in the evening are on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Tisha B'Av (mourning for the Destruction of the Temple), both of which are 24-hour fasts that do begin at sundown. Jewish DAYS always begin at sundown (I'm not sure if Muslims are the same, or if they begin at sunrise) but our FASTS generally do not. Somehow, the Robertsons got this mixed up. For this blooper and the omission of the Sabbath above, I am docking the book a star, but it is still an excellent resource and well worth buying.
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The Sacred Kitchen: Higher-Consciousness Cooking for Health and Wholeness
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