The Cake the Buddha Ate: More Quiet Food - Tapa blanda

Food is one of the first casualties of our hectic pace of life - in the way we eat it as well as in the way we prepare it. The Cake the Buddha Ate - more quiet food asks us to change our attitude to this seemingly mundane human need and make it into a joyful, flavourful journey, full of delights and surprises. These recipes originated at a special place: The Buddhist Retreat Centre (BRC) in Ixopo, KZN, which is renowned for its excellent, innovative vegetarian cuisine for more than thirty years. It published its first collection of recipes in 2005 under the title Quiet food - a recipe for sanity. The Cake the Buddha Ate: more quiet food takes this culinary success story to another level. These are imaginative, tasty and nutritious dishes created by chef, Daniel Jardim, himself a vegetarian, while he cooked at the Centre. But there is more to the BRC than outstanding food. Photographs, anecdotes, poems and haikus offer a glimpse of the Centre's magnificent setting and the range of workshops and retreats conducted there.

Daniel Jardim is a self-employed chef, a former nutritional advisor, and the former resident chef at the Buddhist Retreat Center. Angela Shaw is a photographer whose work has been exhibited at ArtSpace in Durban and has been featured in various publications, including Cosmopolitan, Elle Decoration, and House and Leisure. Chrisi van Loon is the editor of Quiet Food. She oversees and directs the many activities at the Buddhist Retreat Center, including setting up retreat programs and liaising with teachers.