Someone asked Master Yun Men, "What is the most urgent phrase?" The Master said, "Eat."

Three Bowl Cookbook brings the aesthetic, spirituality, and pleasure of a Zen kitchen into your own home. Learn more about the Zen approach to food preparation, cooking and eating. These recipes are quick, simple and vegetarian, seasonal and nutritionally-complete menus. Haikus, anecdotes and tales from the kitchen of a chef and expert on Zen philisophy. 

According to the fifteen-hundred year old tradition of oriyoki, monks of a Zen monastery receive their meals in three bowls. 

I love this book! When I would only be able to keep one cook book, it will be this book!