The Plum Village Cookbook

"The Plum Village Cookbook offers something increasingly rare in contemporary food culture: an invitation to slow down. Having spent time at Thầy’s Deer Park Monastery in California, I was struck by how faithfully this book captures the community’s culture of mindfulness and its spirit of generosity, compassion, and care for one another. Drawing from Vietnamese culinary traditions, the recipes are simple, nourishing, and deeply appealing. They reflect a thoughtful plant-based approach grounded in compassion for both people and the planet. More than a cookbook, The Plum Village Cookbook is a guide to cultivating presence at the table and reverence for the many hands, histories, and ecosystems that sustain us."
—bryant terry, James Beard Award–winning author of Vegetable Kingdom and Afro-Vegan

"The Plum Village Cookbook offers something increasingly rare in contemporary food culture: an invitation to slow down. Having spent time at Thầy’s Deer Park Monastery in California, I was struck by how faithfully this book captures the community’s culture of mindfulness and its spirit of generosity, compassion, and care for one another. Drawing from Vietnamese culinary traditions, the recipes are simple, nourishing, and deeply appealing. They reflect a thoughtful plant-based approach grounded in compassion for both people and the planet. More than a cookbook, The Plum Village Cookbook is a guide to cultivating presence at the table and reverence for the many hands, histories, and ecosystems that sustain us."
—bryant terry, James Beard Award–winning author of Vegetable Kingdom and Afro-Vegan