Press reviews for: Tales From a Zen Kitchen
Hilary Richards, Retreat Leader, Western Chan Fellowship
An intensely felt and highly personal description of the transformation of a Zen cook's life through cooking. Beautifully written, with flowering prose, this book will inspire anyone who cooks.
Ned Reiter, Zen Practitioner and Registered Medical Herbalist
There are many delicious recipes tucked inside these pages, but the main one is this: in responding to each moment with authenticity, inquiry, compassion and mindfulness, we truly encounter the wonder of our lives.
Judy Gray, York Steiner School
Florencia's food feeds not just the body but the spirit.
Real Epicurean
Put simply, Feeding Orchids to the Slugs is the best book I've ever thought I'd not want to read.
Green Spirit Magazine
The reader cannot help but be affected by this author's ability to see cooking as a joy and by the way her spirit shines through her words as she describes her recipes. She speaks of her cooking as a kind of alchemy - the transformation of basic ingredients into food.
Buddhist Book Reviews
Feeding Orchids to the Slugs is one of the most honest and moving accounts of an individual's personal journey that we have had the pleasure of reading. This is a book that we would strongly recommend to anyone. It would also make a perfect gift, being a carefully crafted hardback with superb illustrations by Michaela Meadow.
Real Epicurean
I've read a few other reviews of 'Feeding Orchids to The Slugs' on the net to see how other people described it; "evocative" seems to be the word used the most, and I couldn't think of a better one myself.
Hilary Richards, Retreat Leader, Western Chan Fellowship
A Zen cook's life is transformed through cooking. Beautifully written, with flowing prose, this book will inspire anyone who cooks.