From Garden to Kitchen

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You hold a special book in your hands. A cookbook which presents both cooking and eating as an organic part of daily life and harmoniously adjusts to the day-by-day and seasonal changes of our life. An alive and effervescent recipe book which keeps track of the processes of cooking from nature, the "home" of our food, to our own home, the kitchen and the dinner table. It doesn't feature the kitchen as an isolated place where the mothers arriving home from work prepare the dinner for their husband and children. It portrays the kitchen as a living-space where it is a pleasure to stay and create and which is a comfortable part of day to day existence just like the living room.
Moreover it knocks over the walls between the realm of raw materials and the nutrients getting into the kitchen: it includes the garden and gardening in the whole process, thus making the act of eating really complete, or in other words a... Tovább

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You hold a special book in your hands. A cookbook which presents both cooking and eating as an organic part of daily life and harmoniously adjusts to the day-by-day and seasonal changes of our life. An alive and effervescent recipe book which keeps track of the processes of cooking from nature, the "home" of our food, to our own home, the kitchen and the dinner table. It doesn't feature the kitchen as an isolated place where the mothers arriving home from work prepare the dinner for their husband and children. It portrays the kitchen as a living-space where it is a pleasure to stay and create and which is a comfortable part of day to day existence just like the living room.
Moreover it knocks over the walls between the realm of raw materials and the nutrients getting into the kitchen: it includes the garden and gardening in the whole process, thus making the act of eating really complete, or in other words a holistic experience.
The author shares with us many dishes which are easy to prepare and require the cheapest ingredients in the given season. She also gives practical advice about gardening and cooking and a lot of secrets - secrets that cooks usually don't share with others.
In this way recipes become alive and kicking, they sound friendly and inspiring. Another asset of this book is its personal tone. By covering all significant details and tricks it makes easy to prepare the dishes to those as well who are less versed in cooking. Behind the lines we can see
the face of a real person who simply shares with us her everyday experiences and the happiness cooking gives her.
Beside the dishes based on Indian, Vedic recipes the book contains the vegetarian versions of many European (Italian, Hungarian, etc.) dishes already known to us. Being a devotee of Krishna Hemangi also gives us a meditative cookbook into our hands: it's appreciable throughout the whole text that cooking is the part of devotion and meditation imbibing all areas of life.
It's a stop-gap! Gripping as a reading and it is so alive that - as a fine piece of screenplay - it wants to come to life on the stage of our kitchen and stove.
The author of this book, Hemangi Devi Dasi fell in love with cooking when she was ten. She's been a vegetarian for seventeen years and lives in the biggest ecov-illage of Central Europe, in Krishna Valley at Somogyvamos, Hungary. Yes, she is a lucky person! By the fresh vegetables and fruits grown in the valley's organic gardens she is inspired every day to cook and by the same token she inspires her readers as well to prepare the exciting, beuteous and enticing dishes of vegetarian gastronomy. Vissza