Edward Espe Brown is a zen priest and author of The Tassajara Bread Book and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings, as well as editor of Not Always So, a book of talks by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. A teacher of meditation and cooking, he is also a student of Vipassana, cranio-sacral, handwriting change, and chi gung and yoga, as well as a lover of poetry. His teaching style weaves together a multiplicity of strands. Edward is featured in the movie How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris Dörrie, released in the fall of 2007. No Recipe, 2018 and The Most Important Point, 2019 are his most recent books.