What if cooking became a path? In Japan, under the impetus of Buddhist monks, shojin cuisine has flourished for centuries. Vegetable, seasonal, simple, and tasty, it seeks neither to impress nor to seduce; it seeks to take care. Through the gestures of the tenzo, the temple cook, a practice unfolds which allows the link to be maintained between the person cooking, their guests and the great chain of life which makes all this possible.