Cutting open the vegetables left me awestruck. Where did all these things come from? Why are they the way they are? And how is it that I am here with them, resonating in harmony and well-being? And no, I didn’t need scientific answers - I wanted poetry, like Rumi, who said, “What was said to the rose that made it bloom is being spoken here in my heart now.”
From Edward Espe Brown, The Complete Tassajara Cookbook (Boston, 2009)
