This Is a Very Good Strawberry: Mindful Practices from the Garden to the Kitchen

From the editor of Lion’s Roar, a gentle, approachable guide to integrating mindfulness and compassion into our relationship with food

There is a classic Zen story: A man falls off a cliff while running from a tiger. Before hitting the ground, he catches on a branch, but there are mice gnawing at it, and it’s clear the branch will soon break. Suddenly the man notices a strawberry growing in a crevice on the cliff. In the face of certain death, he reaches out, picks the fruit, and pops it int...