Monks' Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes from Kauai's Hindu Monastery: A Collection of Jaffna-style and Indian Dishes from Around the World for Daily Meals and Elaborate Festivals
South Indian ashrams serve the finest cruelty-free meals enjoyed anywhere, and Kauai's Hindu monastery carries on the 6,000-year old tradition. They believe good food is humankind's best medicine, and there is an energy in their culinary contemplations, called 'prana', that nourishes body and soul alike. Now the monks have shared their secret collection of recipes, gathered over the years and perfected in the Islands made famous by Captain Cook.